Europe suffered a number of bubonic plaque epidemics from 1347 – 1750. The last major outbreak in England was in 1665-6 and killed about 100,000 people, 20% of London’s population at the time. It was already mainly over by the time of the Great Fire. (A rather extreme example of the definition of history: One damn thing after another.) On the burial register at St Olaves, Hart Street are the names of 365 plaque victims.
Historic UK have produced a map of London plague pits.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Great Plague
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Physician, born Théodore Turquet de Mayerne in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied in Geneva and Heidelberg and moved to Paris where he founded a medical practice and began to support the views of Para...
It really is spelt "ophth...", amazing. This institute doesn't seem to exist any more and we can't discover which organisation it disappeared into.
Nurse and midwife. She trained at University College Hospital and at the British Lying-in Hospital. In 1868 she took charge of the surgical wards at King’s College Hospital, and a year later was a...
Born Transylvania, studied engineering. His sister Dorothy married Dallos and in May 1937 they all came to London. As an enemy alien was not allowed to fight in WW2 but after the war he gained Brit...
Born Canterbury. Studied at Oxford, Rome and Vicenza. Physician to Henry VIII. After 11 years as a doctor he became a priest, giving away his wealth to promote the study of medicine and establis...
