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Definition of Infirmaries
1. infirmary [n] - See also: infirmary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infirmaries
Literary usage of Infirmaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Poor Law System, Past and Present by Paul Felix Aschrott (1902)
"The disadvantages involved have been already mentioned.1 In the workhouses, owing
to their not having been erected and designed as infirmaries, there is no ..."
2. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1867)
"With a complete Scheme for the Regulation of Workhouse infirmaries. By JH STALLARD,
MB London. London/ 1866. Pp. 143. 3. The Lancet Sanitary Commission for ..."
3. The Nationalisation of Health by Havelock Ellis (1892)
"THE twenty-four Poor Law infirmaries of London cannot strictly be classed with
the general hospitals. But the Poor Law infirmaries of Great Britain, ..."
4. The Fortnightly Review (1866)
"METROPOLITAN infirmaries FOR THE PAUPER SICK. Ix a former number L took occasion
to describe the painful defects of the sick-wards of workhouses, ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1881)
"WORKHOUSE infirmaries.1 THE quality which most perplexes the foreign student of
British character is usually the reverential attachment which the Englishman ..."
6. A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins by Johann Beckmann (1846)
"infirmaries. HOSPITALS FOR INVALIDS. ... BY the preceding article 1 am induced
to give some information in regard to the history of infirmaries. ..."
7. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1880)
"COUNTY infirmaries (IRELAND) BILL. On Motion of Mr. MELDON, Bill to amend the
Law relating to County infirmaries in Ireland, ordered to bo brought in by Mr. ..."
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