Medicine and Health Subject Key

The following list of subject terms has been provided for you to explore the South Wales Coalfield Collection for items relating to medicine and health. Click on any of these terms to locate the relevant items.

Please note that not all the entries that appear will include the term that you have inserted because the material has been coded to identify sources for medicine and health.

A

Ambulance service       

Amputees

Animal health

Ankylostomiasis

Artificial limbs

B

Birth control

Blindness

Brain – Diseases of

Bread

British Restaurants

Byssinosis

C

Cancer

Canteens

Child - Mortality

Child welfare

Children - Hospitals

Coal mine accidents

Coal mines and mining – Health and hygiene

Coal mines and mining – Safety regulations

Coal mines and mining – Transport of sick and injured

Communicable diseases – Hospitals

Community health services

Crush syndrome

D

Deafness

Dental care

Dental public health

Dentists

Dentures

Diabetes

Diet

Diphtheria

Diseases

Drugstores

Dust

E

Electric shock

Emphysema

Epidemics

Epilepsy

Evacuation of civilians

Explosions

Eyeglasses

F

Firedamp

First aid in illness and injury

Food

Furunculosis

G

Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous

Glanders

H

Health

Hearing aids

Hernia

Heart – Diseases of

Heat – Physiological effect

Hernia

Hookworm disease

Hospitals

Hospitals - Staff

Hospitals, Convalescent

Housing and health

I

Industrial accidents

Industrial hygiene [Pithead baths]

Influenza

Insurance

Insurance, Accident

Insurance, Health

Insurance, Life

Insurance, Unemployment

L

Lungs – Dust diseases