1 Jan 2019, Φ John Snow pump in Broadstreet (now: Broadwick Street)
“The Broad Street cholera outbreak (or Golden Square outbreak) was a severe outbreak of cholera that occurred in 1854 near Broad Street … This outbreak, which killed 616 people, is best known for the physician John Snow’s study of its causes and his hypothesis that germ-contaminated water was the source of cholera … This discovery came to influence public health and the construction of improved sanitation facilities beginning in the mid-19th century …”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak
2019_01_01 London (UK): Pump & pub John Snow
2019_01_01 London (UK): John Snow pub
A pump is now installed at the pub, off the original site.
Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019
Nick Black (2006 / 2009): Walking London’s Medical History. The Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd., London.
Walk 4: The Challenging Isle – Soho (p.107 ff.)
Selected items:
Soho Square, No. 14: “home of a pioneering figure in British nursing, Mary Seacole. Born in Jamaica in 1805… went and cared for the victims of a cholera epidemic in Panama … … Crimean War …”
Soho Square, No. 22: “Dispensary for the Infant Poor, the first dispensary for sick children in England … established in 1769 …moved here in 1772”
Soho Square, The Hospital for Women: “established … in 1842 … moved here in 1852”
Soho Square, No.32: Linnean Society: “the world’s oldest extant biological society …” … National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart
2019_01_01 London (UK): Dispensary for the Infant Poor
2019_01_01 London (UK): Mary Seacole home
2019_01_01 London (UK): Hospital for Women
2019_01_01 London (UK): Soho Square hut 1926
Carlisle Street, No. 38: Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear (1816)
Dean Street: Male Hospital, part of the London Lock Hospital
Dean Street, No. 42-43: Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear
Dean Street, No. 72: Dean Street School of Anatomy
2019_01_01 London (UK): Lock Hospital, Males section
2019_01_01 London (UK): Dean Street School of Anatomy
2019_01_01 London (UK): Royal Ear Hospital
2019_01_01 London (UK): Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy
Great Windmill Street: Great Windmill Street School, “the first and most famous private anatomy school in London … The Scottish surgeon William Hunter established the school within months of the Company of Barber-Surgeons splitting in 1745”
Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019
“The collection includes well over 150 million items … 3 million new items are added every year … Over 16,000 people use the collections each day (on site and online) … We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world…”
Pattison, Mme. Mark (1884): Claude Lorrain, sa vie et ses œuvres, d’apès des documents inédits. Série: Bibliothèque Internationale de l’Art. J. Rouam, Imprimeur-Èditeur, Paris. BL-Shelfmark J/2266.aa.7
Bouyer, Raymond (1905): Claude Lorrain, Biographie critique. Série: Les Grands Artistes. Leur Vie – Leur Œuvre. Librairie Renouard, Paris. BL-Shelfmark 2266.bb.20
Accademia di Francia a Roma (1982): Claude Lorrain e i pittori lorenesi in Italia nel XVII secolo. De Luca Editore, Roma. BL-Shelfmark F11/3458.
Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019
„This was the final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud, a pioneering child psychoanalyst … The Freud family came to England as refugees, having escaped Austria following the Nazi annexation in March 1938. Freud spent the last year of his life here, and it remained the family home until Anna’s death in 1982.”
2018_12_30 London (UK): Freud Museum
2018_12_30 London (UK): Freud Museum
Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019
30 Dec 2018, ΦWellcome Collection, Special exhibition: Living with Buildings – Health and Architecture, 4 Oct 2018 – 3 Mar 2019
“We’re surrounded by buildings all the time, but how do they affect our physical and mental health? Explore the role colour can play in making us feel better, see a pioneering mobile clinic designed to provide adaptable healthcare in emergency situations and examine the history and continuing reality of how we design for health … this exhibition examines some of the ways in which architects, planners and designers influence our health, self-esteem and ideas about society“, https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/Wk4sPSQAACcANwrX
From the Exhibition booklet: “Our built environment contributes to our physical and mental health in both physical and mental ways … The exhibition traces how urban planning and development has been employed as a tool to improve people’s lives, as well as showing how architecture can respond to global issues in health today. Emily Sargent, Curator, Living with Buildings”. Sections:
Terrace of the future; refuse of the past
How do we know what homes look like?
Hut, Tent, Cottage, Palace
Healing Buildings
Living with Buildings: Global Clinic
RawMinds: Made Well.
Companion book: Iain Sinclair (2018): Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts. On Health and Architecture. Published in association with Wellcome Collection for the exhibition Living with Buildings curated by Emily Sargent. Profile Books Ltd., London.
From the book:
MOVE, incl.: Christ Church: The Sickness and the Shadow; Ex-Voto Detour
FURTHER, incl.: John Evelyn’s Mulberry Tree; Radiant City
[Book epilogue, pp.179-80] Emily Sargent: Living with Buildings: an exhibition about health and architecture.
“Approaches of architects, planners and designers can have a powerful influence over our feelings of individual wellbeing, as well as physical health and have much to tell us about the dominant wider priorities in society and politics … In the introduction to the publication of Oliver Twist, … Charles Dickens wrote: ‘Nothing can be done for the elevation of the poor in England, until their dwelling places are made decent and wholesome.’… A line can be drawn … to the terrible fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017 … The exhibition … showing how architecture can respond to global issues in health today.”
Context: 3 Jan 2019, Φ Sojourn in London, 27 Dec 2018 – 3 Jan 2019
