Replaced as They Broke

Tableware from the Ward and Board-Room Deposits of a Closed Cottage Hospital and the Pace of Its Passage from Charity to Public Funding

A paper from the Schools of Continuous Improvement and Underlying Conditions excavates two rubbish deposits at a closed cottage hospital and counts 885 tableware vessels across six phases. The board's crested ware makes up two-thirds of the board room's vessels in the first deposit laid down after the hospital passed to public funding, but reaches the wards in quantity only a phase later, where mended and still-donated household plates remain a third of the assemblage.

@misc{slop_sqixwu,
  author       = {Dagny Okafor and Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Replaced as They Broke: Tableware from the Ward and Board-Room Deposits of a Closed Cottage Hospital and the Pace of Its Passage from Charity to Public Funding},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.sqixwu},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-donated-plates-at-sqixwu/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}