Tag: Public health Records and researchThe Great Smog of 1952Tuesday 19 July 2022This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Great Smog of London, which occurred...Records and researchFamily planning in the 1920s: Marie Stopes and the ‘wise precaution of delay’Tuesday 29 March 2022was published. Aimed at married couples, it became an instant bestseller and went through...Records and researchJust a pill: 60 years of the contraceptive pill on the NHSSaturday 4 December 2021On 20 January 1961 Searle & Co wrote to the Chief Medical Officer of...Records and researchPessaries to French letters: Contraceptives before the pillWednesday 1 December 2021On 4 December 1961, the contraceptive pill was introduced on the NHS in the...Records and researchPlague Ahoy! Maritime quarantine in the 18th centuryThursday 28 October 2021On 23 August 1720 at the Council Chamber in Whitehall, the Privy Council issued...Records and researchKicking the habit: Government’s first anti-smoking campaignsWednesday 27 October 2021This month is Stoptober – an annual media campaign started by Public Health England...Records and researchFighting the ’flu, 1918-1919 (Part two): First World War medical recordsFriday 30 July 2021The impact of the influenza on persons from the front can be discovered using...Records and researchFighting the ’flu, 1918-1919 (Part one)Tuesday 27 July 2021Just over a century ago, an unusually deadly influenza pandemic broke out, killing an...Records and researchComputing Cholera: Topic modelling the catalogue entries of the General Board of HealthTuesday 2 June 2020The 19th century saw a number of global cholera pandemics, beginning in India and...