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THE LONDON HOSPITAL CRISIS Indicates just some of the 80 hospitals this Government has agreed for full or partial closure. SOURCE: PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN ANSWER 1987. HEALTH BEFORE WEALTH © Copyright London Regional Transport.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered on the front"},{"content":"HEALTH BEFORE WEALTH Dear Mrs Thatcher, I wish to register my protest at the Government's failure to provide adequate public funding for the National Health Service in London. 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