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Beginnings

Social Conditions and disease prevention in early nineteenth century Britain

Britain's major maritime organizations, shipyards, and London's docks

Conditions of service in Britain's maritime organizations

Diseases afflicting sailors before 1821

The SHS's precursor early meetings aimed at London's homeless Most of the Destitute seem to be Sailors

This laudable Institution the permanent society is launched in 1821

The days of the Hospital-ships 1821-70

John Lydekker 1778-1832 a benefaction leading to the Act of Incorporation andother fund-raising initiatives

The Hospital-ships

Service on the Hospital-ships

Fund-raisingin the days of the ships

Diseases on the Hospital-ships

Administrators, physicians and surgeons who served during the ship era

The SHS in full swing 1870-1914

Transfer of facilities to the Infirmary of the Royal Hospital Greenwich in 1870

Expansion of facilities at the Dreadnought and further afield

The Society's expanding staff 1870-1914

Diseases encountered by the Society 1870-1914

Nursing and nurse-training at the Dreadnought and ADH establishment of a school on Nightingale lines

Genesis of the first school for tropical diseases at the ADH

The London School of Clinical Medicine 1906-14 and structural changes to the Dreadnought Hospital

Two World Wars, introduction of the National Health Service and insidious decline of the Society 1914-2006

The Great War 1914-18 the inter-war years and several new facilities

Staffing during the Great War and inter-war years

The Second World War 1939-45 introduction of the National Health Service 1948 and decline in the Society's activities

Diseases at the Society's Hospitals in the latter years of the twentieth century

TheSociety's staff in recent times

The Society and its tropical medicine component in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

The Board of Management Minute Books and their dates

Appeal notice issued after the Public Meeting on 8 March 1821

Instructions to personnel on the last of the Hospital-ships

Log of the Dreadnought 1865-68.

Seamen's Hospital Society (London, England) > History.

Merchant mariners > Medical care > England > London > History > 19th century.

Merchant mariners > Medical care > England > London > History > 20th century.

Medicine, Naval > England > London > History > 19th century.

Medicine, Naval > England > London > History > 20th century.

Hospital ships > England > London > History > 19th century.

Hospital ships > England > London > History > 20th century.

Tropical medicine > England > London > History > 19th century.

Tropical medicine > England > London > History > 20th century.