“The best that can be said about Victorian hospitals is that they were a slight improvement over their Georgian predecessors. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement when one considers that a hospital’s “Chief Bug-Catcher” – whose job it was to rid the mattresses of lice – was paid more than its surgeons.”

“The best that can be said about Victorian hospitals is that they were a slight improvement over their Georgian predecessors. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement when one considers that a hospital’s “Chief Bug-Catcher” – whose job it was to rid the mattresses of lice – was paid more than its surgeons.”

— Lindsey Fitzharris