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Keywords: asylums (hospitals)healthhealth policyhospitalslunatic asylumsmental health - Historical NHS patient records
Keywords: healthhospitalsmedical patientspatients in hospital - Home Office correspondence from 1782
Keywords: crime and criminalshealthhome officepoverty - Hospitals
Keywords: healthhospitalsmedical patientsmedical servicespatients in hospital - Public health and social policy in the 19th century
Keywords: epidemicshealth - Public health and social policy in the 20th century
Keywords: diseaseshealthmedical servicesmental healthwelfare