WOMEN, POLITICS AND WELFARE
The Papers of Nancy Astor, 1879-1964, from Reading University Library

Part 3: Subject Files - Health, Birth Control and Social Insurance

Part 4: Subject Files - Women, the Franchise, Marriage Laws and Papers regarding Pressure Groups

Publisher's Note - Part 3

This third part offers complete coverage of Nancy Astor's files on Health, Birth Control and Social Insurance. As such, it complements the material on Children and the Family provided in Part 2 and is of the first importance for those studying the Welfare State.

There are files on the Food Council, Health, Illegitimacy, Insurance, Moral Hygiene, Mother's Pensions, Nurses, Nutrition, Pensions, Prostitution and Settlements. Issues covered include the control of prostitution, the elimination of venereal disease, the provision of sound dietary advice, the provision of a good health service and care for the elderly.

"…something is wrong about insurance, and I do not think it is a good thing for the House of Commons to say that there is nothing wrong and that doctors are all right…"
Nancy Astor, Political Diaries, April 29, 1930

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