Page 20 - Life in Langham 1914-1919

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.