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Victims of the 1848-9 Lambeth cholera outbreak

Categories: Medicine, Tragedy

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

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

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Evelina Hospital for Sick Children

Evelina Hospital for Sick Children

The Evelina Children's Hospital was founded by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild and named for his wife, who had died aged 27 with her child in labour in 1866. It was planned by Dr Arthur Farre in a pu...

Group, Children, Medicine

2 memorials
Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians

Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians

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.

Group, Medicine

1 memorial
Matthew Bell

Matthew Bell

Psychotherapist who works locally and is interested in local history.   He felt passionately that there should be a memorial where the denouement of the revolt took place and where Tyler fell.  Up ...

Person, History, Medicine

1 memorial
St John's House

St John's House

From the National Archives : "St John House was founded in 1848 as a 'Training Institution for Nurses for Hospitals, Families and the Poor'. It was a religious community run by a Master, who was a ...

Group, Education, Medicine, Religion

1 memorial
Sir Roger Bannister

Sir Roger Bannister

Athlete and doctor. Born Roger Gilbert Bannister in Harrow. While still a medical student, he won the mile event in the Oxford versus Cambridge match four times between 1947 and 1950, and was a fin...

Person, Medicine, Sport / Games, Finland

2 memorials