Charity and change in the mixed economy of healthcare in Bristol, 1918-1948 / George Campbell Gosling.

"This thesis focuses on the city of Bristol to examine the British voluntary hospital system in its final decades. It will locate the voluntary hospitals in their final years - between the end of the First World War and the creation of the National Health Service - within an evolving mix of healthcare and can therefore be understood as an investigation into the response of the voluntary sector to the rise of the welfare state" -- abstract.