Stories
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination
The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.
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Healthy scepticism
Healthcare sceptics – like those opposed to Covid-19 vaccinations – often have serious, nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities.
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
Catalogue
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First [-Second] report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and populous districts.
Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts.Date: 1844[-1845]- Books
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First report of the commissioners for inquiring into the state of large towns and populous districts. Vol. II.
Date: 1844- Books
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Report on the state of the City of York and other towns. / By James Smith, Esq., of Deanston.
Smith, James, 1789-1850.Date: 1845- Books
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Letters on the unhealthy condition of the lower class of dwellings : especially in large towns; founded on the First report of the Health of Towns Commission, with notices of other documents on the subject, and an appendix, containing plans and tables from the report.
Girdlestone, Charles, 1797-1881.Date: 1845- Books
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Minutes of evidence given by C. J. B. Aldis.
Aldis, C. J. B. (Charles James Berridge), 1808-1872.Date: 1844