We have used a wide range of sources in preparing the Plague to Contagion exhibition.
Some material is held elsewhere but much is from our collections here at Medway Archives.
They include:
- parish registers
- local newspapers
- health reports
- books
- pamphlets
- photographs.
Contact us at malsc@medway.gov.uk if you would like to know more about this subject.
Sources and references
| Title |
References |
| Plague |
- Burials, August 1666 St Mary Magdelene Church, Gillingham, Composite Register, P153/1/2(2).
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| Rochester pest house |
- Recollections of Rochester No 107 by Edwin Harris, Chatham Observer 28 December 1934
- The Old Spytall painted c.1848. (Copy of an original in the possession of Mr Cockburn of Borstal in 1918). Local Studies Illustrations Collection, C051156678
- O’Halloran, Cindy The Old Spytall. Friends of Medway Archives The Clock Tower November 2013
- Ratcliffe, Bob A tale of Two Spytalls. Friends of Medway Archives The Clock Tower February 2014.
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| Anti-vaccination |
- Geoff Rambler blog
- The Arena Volume 14 1895
- Illustration: The National Anti-Compulsory-Vaccination Reporter 1877 (Google Books).
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| Smallpox |
- Stewart, J. The Alexandra Hospital at Wigmore part 1 (Medway Chronicle Number 9, Autumn 2013)
- London Evening Standard, 28 March 1903
- Weekly Dispatch, 29 March 1903
- Chatham Board of Health Reports CBA/H1/1
- Hampshire Advertiser, 18 January 1902
- St James’s Gazette, 9 January 1902
- Joyce Stewart, The Alexandra Hospital, Wigmore: an outline of our local hospitals,
- Gillingham Local History Leaflet, No. 3 - Kent County Library
- Gillingham Borough Archives GBC HL28 and GBC HL 19 12.
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| Cholera |
- History of the epidemic of cholera by Thomas Stratton, 1851.
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| Typhoid |
- The Chatham News, 1912
- Report of the medical officer of Health. Outbreak of Typhoid Fever, 1912 RCA/H1/2
- Medway Archives Centre Local Studies photographic collection FBY/HEA/IDS/1. O. Wenborn.
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| Spanish flu |
- Dora Mathews, VAD Nurse: (VF MED 920/MATT/1) Obituary: Chatham News, 14 December 1918
- Borstal National School logbook, C/ES/305B/1/1/2
- Chatham News, 2 and 9 November 1918
- Chatham Observer, 2 and 26 November 1918.
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