ABSTRACT
Richard Titmuss, the leading and enthusiastic student of the British welfare state, concluded his noted research on social policy in World War II Britain by stating:
It would . . . be true to say that by the end of the Second World War the Government had . . . assumed and developed a measure of direct concern for the health and well-being of the population which, by contrast with the role of Government in the nineteen-thirties, was little short of remarkable.1
