Event    From 1848  To 1854

19th century cholera outbreaks

Categories: Medicine, Tragedy

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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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Edith McMullen

Edith McMullen

Long ward nursing sister at Chelsea Hospital.

Person, Medicine

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
W. Humphris Winny, OBE, AMIEE

W. Humphris Winny, OBE, AMIEE

Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1891-1927. Knight Grace in the Order of St John. The 1904 publication "St Martin-le-Grand, Vol. XIV" contains an article written ...

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Dr John Lettsom

Dr John Lettsom

Physician, philanthropist, abolitionist and entomologist. Born British Virgin Islands into a Quaker family. Aged 6 was sent to England to be educated. Came to London in 1766 to train at St Thomas' ...

Person, Medicine, Philanthropy, Race Issues, Virgin Islands

2 memorials
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
Royal College of General Practitioners

Royal College of General Practitioners

Founded in London. Instituted in November 1952, and granted its Royal Charter in 1972.

Group, Medicine

5 memorials

Previously viewed

Royal Regiment of Artillery - replacement plaque

Royal Regiment of Artillery - replacement plaque

SE18, Artillery Square, Academy Performing Arts

Sometime 2011-17 the rather nice yellow plaque was replaced with the bronze rectangle which doesn't look new nor designed for an exterior...

4 subjects commemorated
Hunt's House at Guy's Hospital

Hunt's House at Guy's Hospital

Another, partial, view of this building here.  Dates approximate.

Building, Medicine

1 memorial
dissolution of the monasteries

dissolution of the monasteries

In 1534, for reasons not only to do with his marital situation, Henry VIII broke with Rome, the Pope and the Catholic Church. At the time the Catholic monasteries (and abbeys, priories, convents an...

Event, Politics & Administration, Property, Religion, Royalty

4 memorials
Silver Jubilee of King George V

Silver Jubilee of King George V

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of King George V.

Event, Royalty

5 memorials
Worshipful Company of Founders

Worshipful Company of Founders

Founders were workers in brass and brass alloys or tinplate. They made small objects such as candlesticks and weights and measures. From their website (link now dead): "Today ... the Founders' Com...

Group, Craft / Design, Liveries & Guilds

3 memorials