Health & Disease
Discover how Londoners have faced plagues, pandemics and illness with these objects, stories and blogs.
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Health & Disease
Health & Disease
The Great Pestilence in London
Plague killed over half of the city’s population between 1348 and 1352
Death & Disasters
Death & Disasters
The Great Plague of 1665
An estimated 100,000 people died in London’s last major plague epidemic
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Saxon & Medieval
Saxon & Medieval
Seal of St Mary Magdalene Leper Hospital (seal matrix)
Late Medieval-Tudor; late 15th-early 16th century
Photography
Photography
A doctor examines an infant's ear, Burney Street Welfare Centre (negative)
Grant, Henry
1962-12
