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     Langham’s Health Services
               At the start of WWI, Langham, unlike
               Market Overton and Somerby, had no
               resident doctor. There was no nurse,
               forcing villagers to rely on their own
               limited knowledge or that of a local
               woman well versed in remedies,
               experienced in midwifery and the skill
               of laying out the dead.
               Alternatively they might visit the
               Oakham premises of
               Frederick Pascall, James Wellington,
               or Ellingworths chemists to purchase
               a proprietary medicine or
               the ingredients to make up their
               own remedy.
               Another option, and probably one only
               resorted to in a real emergency was to visit,
               or send for, one of the three doctors practising in Oakham.
               In 1911, three were advertising; Alfred Norman, surgeon,
               William Keal, physician and surgeon, Harold Bevis, physician
               and surgeon.
               American and English dentistry was offered by J Hefford.





