The great war and the British people:
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Basingstoke u.a.
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1987
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adam_text | THE GREAT WAR AND
THE BRITISH PEOPLE
J M Winter
M
MACMILLAN
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
ix
xiv
INTRODUCTION 1
1 STRATEGIC DEMOGRAPHY: POPULATION,
POVERTY, AND MILITARY POWER IN PRE-1914
(A) Degeneration: Hereditary or Environmental? 10
III Conclusion
(A) Strategic Demography before 1914 19
(B) The Great War and Strategic Demography in
Britain 20
PART I THE DEMOGRAPHIC COSTS OF THE
GREAT WAR
2 MANPOWER AND MILITARY SERVICE,
1914-1918 25
I The Voluntary System 26
II From Pals Battalions to Conscript Armies,
1914-16- 29
(A) Pals and Others 30
(B) Occupation and Enlistment 33
(C) The End of the Voluntary System 38
III Military versus Industrial Manpower, 1916-18 39
IV Medical Fitness and Military Service 48
BRITAIN
I The French Connection
II The British Connection
(B) Deterioration and the Alien
(C) Deterioration and the Underclass
v
vi CONTENTS
(A) The Medical Examination of Recruits,
1914-17 50
(B) Medical Judgments and Medical
Misjudgments 55
3 THE LOST GENERATION 65
I War Losses among British Forces in the 1914-18
War 66
II The Age Structure of War Losses 76
III Casualties and Rank 83
IV The Slaughter of Social Elites 92
PART II THE PARADOX OF THE GREAT WAR
4 CIVILIAN HEALTH IN WARTIME BRITAIN 103
I Mortality Decline among Civilians in Wartime
Britain: Working-class Men, 1914-17 107
II Occupational Mortality Rates among Men in
England and Wales, 1900-23 108
III Mortality Decline among Civilians in Wartime
Britain: The Female Population of England and
Wales, 1912-21 117
(A) Causes of Death and Mortality Decline 117
(B) The Peculiarities of the English 124
(C) Maternal Mortality in Wartime 132
(D) War Conditions and Mortality Decline 135
(E) Conclusion 140
IV The Decline of Infant Mortality in Wartime Britain 141
(A) The Course of Infant Mortality Decline in
Britain, 1900-30 143
(B) The Decline of Infant Mortality in
Working-class Communities during the War 147
(C) Conclusion 153
5 MEDICAL CARE IN WARTIME 154
I Medical Recruitment and the Problem of Civilian
Medical Care 155
II Manpower Planning for the Medical Profession,
1917-18 167
CONTENTS Vii
III The Defence of Medical Independence 173
(A) The Public Health Service 173
(B) Contract Practice 177
IV Medical Provision and Public Health 178
6 HEALTH ADMINISTRATION IN WARTIME 188
I To Save the Nation s Children 189
(A) Pro-natalism and Public Health in Wartime 189
(B) Infant Welfare, Social Policy and Local
Politics 193
II To Protect the Nation s Workers 204
(A) Factory Welfare 205
(B) National Insurance 208
(C) Industrial Canteens 210
7 STANDARDS OF LIVING AND STANDARDS OF
HEALTH 213
I Food Prices and Food Consumption in Wartime 215
II Other Retail Prices and Working-class
Expenditure 229
III Wages, Earnings and the Increased Cost of Living
in Wartime 230
IV Wartime Austerity and the Escape from Poverty 237
V Welfare Provision and Family Income in Wartime 240
VI Housing in Wartime 242
VII Conclusion 244
PART m THE LEGACY OF THE GREAT WAR
8 THE DEMOGRAPHIC AFTERMATH OF THE
FIRST WORLD WAR 249
I Vital Statistics in the Period of the First World
War _ 250
(A) Marriage Rates 250
(B) Birth Rates 253
(C) Death Rates and Natural Increase 254
(D) Migration 255
viii CONTENTS
II Discontinuities 2SS
(A) The War and Marriage Patterns 255
1 War Losses and the Age Structure of
Marriage 256
2 War and the Popularity of Marriage 261
3 War and the Divorce Rate 263
4 Domesticity and the Upheaval of War 264
(B) International Migration and the War 266
III Continuities 270
(A) Fertility Trends 270
(B) Mortality Trends 271
IV Pensioners, Widows and a Burnt-out
Generation ? 273
9 DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY, CULTURAL
HISTORY AND MEMORIES OF WAR 279
I Demographic History and Cultural History: the
Case of the First World War 279
II Popular Literature and Trench Journalism 285
III War Literature 289
(A) The Literature of Warning 289
(B) The Soldiers War: Separation and
Bereavement 291
(C) The Aftermath of War and The Guilt of the
Survivor 300
IV Conclusion 305
Statistical Appendix 306
Notes 314
Bibliography 334
Index 350
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