Image source: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Large extension to University Hospital Lewisham. The first major NHS building to generate a proportion of its power using photovoltaic roof panels. The Riverside Treatment Centre provides facilities for non-emergency surgery.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Riverside, Lewisham Hospital
Pioneer anaesthetist and epidemiologist. Born North Street in York. The site given as the source for the picture of Snow is an excellent site.
Born Lochfield, Scotland. Pharmacologist and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1927. However he did not realise the significance and it was not until 1940 that Florey and Chain demonstrat...
Notable surgeon during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Strong advocate of the antiseptic surgical methods proposed by Joseph Lister and he served in conflicts such as the Boer War. An...
Person, Emergency Services, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Ireland
In 1871 the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) suffered an attack of typhoid fever (the illness of which his father had died 10 years earlier) while at his home, Sandringham in Norfolk. To everyon...
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