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‘The finest municipal hospital service in the world’?: contemporary perceptions of the London County Council's hospital provision, 1929–39
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 December 2005
Abstract
This article first explains why the London County Council (LCC) was, by the 1930s, the largest provider of hospital beds in Britain. It then examines contemporary perceptions of the LCC hospital service showing how the complex series of responses to it fed into debates about the nature of the post-war National Health Service. Finally, an assessment is made of the service's place in the history of the health services.
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