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Great Ormond Street's Victorian patients

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Brian(i)

Brian(i) Report 21 Dec 2008 00:04

Life was hard for many Victorian children, particularly for the poor and malnourished whose lives were often plagued by sickness.

Diseases like tuberculosis (TB), diphtheria, rheumatic fever, croup and measles were rife, and often killers.

Even if the children survived they could often be left weak or disabled.

Now a fascinating website is giving the public access to photographs and life stories of some of the Victorian and Edwardian convalescent patients at the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, in London (GOSH).
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7789251.stm
Brian(i)