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...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Col. Cyril W. Bowdler Bowdler, CB
Chief Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 District Metropolitan Corps, 1895-1911. Knight Justice in the Order of St John. In 2012 Roger Bowdler posted this at Genealogy: "My gt-gr...
Person, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Medicine, Music / songs, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Indian doctors in the NHS
The 2019 Hindustan Times provides the following: There are currently nearly 30,000 doctors in the National Health Service (NHS) who gained their primary qualifications in India. Besides, there ar...
1 memorial
Great Plague
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...
1 memorial
William Farr
Epidemiologist, a founder of medical statistics. Born Kenley, Shropshire.
1 memorial
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Raphael Maklouf
Born in Jerusalem, to a Jewish family who emigrated to the UK after WW2. His designs have been used for coins in the UK and other countries.
1 memorial
William Marsden
Surgeon who founded two hospitals. 1828 established a small dispensary in Greville Street which was the first to provide free treatment even to people not sent by the benefactors of the institution...
3 memorials
RNH - mosaic
N7, Manor Gardens, Royal Northern Gardens
The new RNH Casualty Department, funded by the Islington War Memorial Fund, was opened in 1923 and closed in 1992 along with the rest of ...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Christ Church Spitalfields - pavement - ownership
E1, Commercial Street, Christ Church Spitalfields - crypt entrance
In our photo both these plaques are behind, and to the right of, the modern standing sign, with the paving stone in the ground directly b...
1 subject commemorated
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