- ISBN: 9781846192364 | 1846192366
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/25/2007
Univ. College London, UK. Explores disease in the merchant navy through history of the Seamen's Hospital Society. Topics include service on hospital-ships, transfer of facilities to the infirmary of the Royal Hospital in Greenwich in 1870, and staffing during the great way and inter-war years. For medical historians. British-oriented.