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A Forgotten Decade (2025-09-23) (2)

A FORGOTTEN DECADE: Reappraising Healthcare Delivery on the Island of Newfoundland in the 1920s

Patrick Kennedy, LLB, LLM, MA

In the 1920s, the health care system on the island of Newfoundland was better developed than is generally assumed. The view of the system as unsatisfactory and inefficient stems from the influential Amulree report – a political document that presented a reduced state of health care in Newfoundland. Subsequent historians and politicians uncritically accepted Amulree’s… Read More


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Past “Aspects” – New Article

A new addition has been made to the Past “Aspects” page,  which contains our “Aspects” articles from past issues of the Newfoundland Quarterly and is located under our Publications Page. This new posting, by Dr. Jim Connor, continues with the topic of nutrition and deficiency diseases in Newfoundland.


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Past “Aspects” – New Article

A new addition has been made to the Past “Aspects” page,  which contains our “Aspects” articles from past issues of the Newfoundland Quarterly and is located under our Publications Page. This new posting, by Dr. Jim Connor, deals with the topic of nutrition and deficiency diseases in Newfoundland.