Be well!

This book describes the heallth issues in the Jewish immigrant community in Glasgow around the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. It looks at the Jewish community's own provision of welfare and health care while focussing on such areas as mental health and child welfare. Other subjects including the Jews and trachoma as they were wrongly accused of bringing trachoma into Britain as part of the campaign against Jewish immigration at the time of the Aliens Act of 1905. A final chapter looks at Christian attempts to evangelise Glasgow's Jews using free health care as a bait.