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SSM 3: Health in Interwar Britain

Britain between the wars is notorious for economic depression, unemployment, slums and regional poverty; and yet statistics show reductions in death rates including for infant mortality, a decline in deaths from once formidable killer diseases, improvements in physique, and increases in life expectancy. The record was itself a matter of heated contemporary controversy, with national data being criticised for obscuring regional and class differences. These were vigorously contested matters since competing explanations were asserted for both improvements and their limitations, some stressing environmental factors (especially housing conditions) and other standards of nutrition, while the role of social services - their advance or their limitations - also became an issue. Analysis of interwar material demonstrates how politicised were - and are - debates on public health.

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