Health & Disease
Discover how Londoners have faced plagues, pandemics and illness with these objects, stories and blogs.
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Top-Results
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Great Plague of 1665
An estimated 100,000 people died in London’s last major plague epidemic
Science & Technology
Science & Technology
John Snow: Cholera & the Broad Street pump
Sure that the deadly disease spread through water, Snow traced a cholera outbreak to a Soho water pump
Health & Disease
Health & Disease
Inside Homerton Hospital, 1988
A new hospital for Hackney – its patients and staff, needles and blood
