Epidemics
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Nellie J. Kerling , “ St. Bartholomew's and Epidemics in the City of London , ” St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal LXXV ( 1971 ) : 120–21 . 15. Duffy , “ Social Impact of Disease in the Late Nineteenth Century , ” pp . 802—3 . 16.
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