Event    From 1665  To 1666

Great Plague

Categories: Medicine, Tragedy

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.

 

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Great Plague

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St Olave's Church

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Royal College of Pathologists

Royal College of Pathologists

Initially they used some space at the HQ of the British Empire Cancer Campaign at 12 Grosvenor Crescent. In 1965 they moved to premises owned by the Royal Society of Medicine, Chandos House, Queen ...

Group, Medicine

1 memorial
John Alcindor

John Alcindor

Doctor. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad (his birth date may have been the 9th of July 1873). He won a scholarship in 1892, which paid for his passage to Britain, where he studied in Edinburgh and G...

Person, Medicine, Nationalism, Caribbean Islands, Scotland

1 memorial
Elizabeth Nicolson

Elizabeth Nicolson

Long ward nursing sister at Chelsea Hospital.

Person, Medicine

War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Sir John Pringle

Sir John Pringle

Military physician. Born Roxburghshire, Scotland. Studied in Flanders/Netherlands, where he later returned in his role as military physician, and Paris. Instituted sanitary reforms first on battlef...

Person, Armed Forces, Medicine, France, Netherlands, Scotland

1 memorial
Capt. F. E. Bendix, MRCS, MRCP, LDS

Capt. F. E. Bendix, MRCS, MRCP, LDS

Assistant Commissioner in the St John Ambulance Brigade, No. 1 (Prince of Wales's) District, 1924-1944. Commander in the Order of St John.

Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration

1 memorial

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W. E. Philpott
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
W. J. Butler

W. J. Butler

A North London Railwayman who fell in the Great War.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial