title: Family visitors or social workers? Health visiting and public health in England and Wales 1890-1974.
abstract: This article examines health visiting from its origins in the late 19th century to the 1974 National Health Service reorganisation. It looks at the successes and failures of health visiting in England and Wales as a whole, and compares this with a case study of provision in the Midlands city of Leicester.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Welshman
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom