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    Addressing ill health: Sickness and retirement in the Victorian post office

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    Authors
    Green, David R
    Brown, Douglas H L
    McIlvenna, Kathleen cc
    Affiliation
    University of Derby
    Issue Date
    2018-11-15
    
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    Abstract
    This article explores ill health and retirement in the Victorian Post Office. Compared to other branches of the Civil Service, ill health was of greater importance as a cause of retirement. Post Office doctors kept careful records of sickness absence, which rose over the period for all workers. These records were also used to determine if employees should be pensioned off on grounds of ill health. Employees in different sections of the Post Office experienced varying levels of sickness depending on their place of employment and the type of work undertaken. Feminisation of the workforce also affected the prevalence of sickness absences, especially in London. Place of work was an important influence on the pattern of sickness with urban areas having higher levels of sickness than rural districts, with distinct sets of conditions linked to each.
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    Brown, D.H., Green, D.R., and McIlvenna, K., (2018). 'Addressing Ill Health: Sickness and Retirement in the Victorian Post Office’. Social History of Medicine. DOI: 10.1093/shm/hky081.
    Publisher
    Oxford Academic.
    Journal
    Social History of Medicine.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623502
    DOI
    10.1093/shm/hky081
    Additional Links
    https://academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/shm/hky081/5184537
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0951-631X
    1477-4666
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1093/shm/hky081
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