Victims of the 1848-9 Lambeth cholera epidemic - at least 1,618 Lambeth waterfront residents perished and were buried in unmarked graves in the burial ground in Lambeth High Street, now Lambeth Recreation Ground. However, it is likely many victims were unrecorded and the death toll was much higher.
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Victims of the 1848-9 Lambeth cholera outbreak
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Cholera - Lambeth - 1848-9
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People's Dispensary for Sick Animals
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David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead
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1 memorial
Horatio Prater
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W. G. Grace
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Sir Arthur Keith
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H. B. T. Booth
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George MacDonald - NW1
NW1, Albert Street, 20, Tudor Lodge
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1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
James Braidwood
SE1, Tooley Street, 33
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3 subjects commemorated,
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2 subjects commemorated,
1 creator
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