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London, city of lost hospitals

Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.

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Getting under the skin

Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.

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The building as tool of healing

When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.

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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances

In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.

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  • Water tank in St. Giles in the Fields, London. Wood engraving, 1858.
  • A seventeenth-century bath-house, or bagnio, at St. Giles, London. Wood engraving.
  • A seventeenth-century bath-house, or bagnio, at St. Giles, London. Wood engraving.
  • St Paul's School, London, England. Etching (on left).
  • Old St Paul's School, London, England. Etching (on right).
  • St Giles's National School, Bloomsbury, London. Wood engraving by J. M. Williams after E. M. Barry, 1860.
  • St. Thomas' Hospital, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
  • A drunken woman standing in the street in St Giles's, London. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • St Paul's School, London, England. Etching by Owen after J.P. Neale, 1814.
  • St. Charles Hospital Medical Centre, London, England: exterior. Photograph by H. Windsley, 1972.
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