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Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… 3 Sept.Henry Duke of Gloucester, the King's brother, of smallpox. The Lords of the Council had several debates about …
A History of the County of Essex
… complicates further any attempt to estimate population. 10 Smallpox and other diseases continued to claim lives, and … particularly vulnerable. In 1730, 1735, 1736, and 1737 smallpox was recorded in St. Peter's parish, and in 1741, … where six deaths from measles were noted in 1769. A smallpox case was mentioned in All Saints' in 1748 and more …
A History of the County of Essex
… C. Joscelyne, 'Medical Practice and Medical Theory: Smallpox in Britain during the long 18th century' (Essex …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… exceeded baptisms. Though plague was absent after 1666, smallpox was a major killer. In 1687 it was said 'smallpox is very rife in this city', and there was another …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… reduced periodically by outbreaks of disease, notably a smallpox epidemic which killed 99 people in 1726, was …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… under the Public Health Act of 1936. 145 Resistance to smallpox vaccination was marked among Gloucester's poor by … enforcement of compulsory vaccination. 150 An outbreak of smallpox in 1895 assumed grave proportions in February 1896 … hospital at Over. The building, which was not for smallpox victims, was delayed and before it was opened in …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… as Gothic Cottages. 94 In 1874, during an outbreak of smallpox, the corporation purchased a wooden hospital from … 1891 to make way for the Monk Meadow dock. 98 During the smallpox epidemic of 1896 the corporation put up temporary … outside the city at Over. The new hospital was not for smallpox and when it opened in 1903 101 the Stroud Road …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… adapted the mill house as a children's home during the smallpox epidemic in Gloucester. 815 The mill site has not …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… is the figure of Edward Jenner (d. 1823), discoverer of smallpox vaccination, set on a pedestal beside the west door. …
Great Haseley (Including Little Haseley, Latchford, Rycote)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… (d. 1764) amassed a considerable fortune before dying from smallpox. 14 Three of the five masons living at Great Haseley …