How past pandemics have affected the Medway area. Entries in the 1666 burial registers show the virulence of the plague outbreak that year. Vaccination programmes had their critics in 19th Century, just as they do today. Attempts to contain and treat successive outbreaks of several epidemics - smallpox, cholera, typhoid, and the Spanish flu - are included. It is sobering to realise that the regulations which are currently in place to counter COVID-19 were known and used in centuries past.

More information can be found on the Medway Archives website.

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