A short film introducing teachers and learners to a document held in Bristol Archives about the 1831 Cholera epidemic. Bristol Museums Learning also offers a school workshop called Bristol’s Health in the Past. For more information visit: bristolmuseums.org.uk/learning
Cholera image:
Patients suffering from cholera in the Jura during the 1854 epidemic, with Dr Gachet attending them. Pencil drawing by A. Gautier, 1859. This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Licensed under Creative Commons 4.0