Stories
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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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007985: Plan of a leper hospital of St Giles, London, from Clay: The medieval hospitals of England
Date: 01 July 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/68/96Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
Souls in torment : Victorian faith in crisis / Giles St. Aubyn.
St. Aubyn, Giles.Date: 2010- Books
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Report on relapsing fever, in St. Giles district, 1869-70 / by George Ross.
Ross, George.Date: [1870]- Books
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St. Giles, Camberwell : report on the Sanitary Acts in their relation to the houses of the very poor.
Bristowe, John Syer, 1827-1895.Date: [1884]- Books
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Report to the Sewers and Sanitary Committee of the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, on houses let in lodgings.
Bristowe, John Syer, 1827-1895.Date: [1884]