Event    From 1848  To 1854

19th century cholera outbreaks

Categories: Medicine, Tragedy

19th century cholera outbreaks

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
19th century cholera outbreaks

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Cholera - Hampstead - 1849

This building was erected by voluntary contributions for a dispensary and sou...

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Cholera - Lambeth - 1848-9

We are tempted to write a letter to the Times ourselves, bemoaning the excess...

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Cholera Pump

Still, this pump has no handle.

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Dr John Snow - site of pump

The red granite kerbstone marks the site of the historic Broad Street pump as...

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Johann Peter Frank

Johann Peter Frank

Born Rotalben, Bavaria to a French father. Worked as a doctor in France and Germany. He wrote on preventative medicine and toured Europe promoting his ideas. Died in Vienna where, despite his re...

Person, Medicine, Austria, France, Germany

1 memorial
Women’s Transport Service (FANY)

Women’s Transport Service (FANY)

All-women unit, affiliated to the TA, formed as the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and active in both nursing and intelligence work during WW1 and WW2.  The original role was to ride horseback (hence "...

Group, Armed Forces, Espionage, Medicine

1 memorial
Nightingale Badge - Old

Nightingale Badge - Old

The badge was awarded to nurses who qualified from the Nightingale School at St Thomas's Hospital. Designed by Dame Alice Lloyd Still (who was matron at St Thomas's), the four arms of the cross sym...

Event, Medicine

1 memorial
St Olave's Hospital

St Olave's Hospital

Built originally as the Rotherhithe Infirmary in the early 1870s. It became the infirmary of St Olave's Union in 1875, and was renamed St Olave's Hospital in 1930. In 1966 it became part of the Guy...

Place, Medicine

1 memorial
Richard Bright

Richard Bright

A physician specialising in kidney problems, he was credited with the discovery of Bright's Disease (now called Glomerulonephritis or Nephritis) through his research on patients who exhibited drops...

Person, Medicine

1 memorial