Yorkshire Philosophical Society

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Pseudo Rural Superiority and Victorian Values: Systemetic Failures in East Yorkshire School Medical Services 1908-1939 Andrew Barnes, B.A. M.A.

Yorkshire Society 2024 “Harry Gration History Essay Prize winner”

This talk describes how the introduction of the School Medical Service (SMS) in 1908, a significant moment in the development of the British welfare state, afforded the East Riding County Council an opportunity to improve the health and wellbeing of the county’s children.  However, research relating to the implementation and management of the service reveals how the authority failed, not only the children in their care, but the staff entrusted with delivering that care. This apathetic approach, with parsimonious undertones, had links to an authority which was heavily influenced by the landed classes, many of which retained the Victorian values of a bygone age.

7pm in the Tempest Anderson Lecture Theatre in the Yorkshire Museum on Tuesday 15 October.

This photograph was scanned and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non-Commercial Licence.