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Did politics matter? Municipal public health expenditure in the 1930s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2011

Martin Powell
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Abstract

This paper examines the relatively neglected topic of municipal public health expenditure in the inter-war period, and emphasizes two neglected dimensions: the political and the geographical. After justifying the importance of the topic and the approach and giving some details of municipal public health provision, a quantitative analysis of expenditure in the urban county boroughs is presented. In general, the analysis tends to argue against conventional wisdom in stressing the political dimension instead of the economic dimension in explaining the pattern of expenditure, giving a positive answer to the question posed in the title.

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Research Article
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Urban History , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , December 1995 , pp. 360 - 379
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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