{"id":3289,"date":"2014-10-06T12:46:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T11:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T10:55:05","slug":"londons-sites-of-medical-interest-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2014\/londons-sites-of-medical-interest-1913\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s Sites of Medical Interest 1913"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3376\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012883_web.jpg\" alt=\"V0012883_web\" width=\"1569\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012883_web.jpg 1569w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012883_web-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012883_web-1024x824.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012883_web-222x180.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1569px) 100vw, 1569px\" \/>Published in 1913 (and available to download from the <a href=\"http:\/\/wellcomelibrary.org\/player\/b11982160#?asi=0&amp;ai=0&amp;z=-0.1151%2C0%2C1.2302%2C0.7432\">Wellcome Library<\/a>) this series of intriguing maps depict London&#8217;s &#8220;sites of medical interest&#8221;. \u00a0It looks like they have been marked on top of a <a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2012\/bacons-picture-map-of-london\/\">Bacon\u00a0&amp; Co<\/a> map of London and they provide a fascinating\u00a0insight into the large numbers of medical museums and institutions that exist(ed) in the capital. I&#8217;d be interested to find out if these maps were available for purchase and who would be buying them &#8211; perhaps they were produced to encourage early medical tourism in London.\u00a0The map above covers central London. But there are also maps for Paddington&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012882_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3375\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012882_web.jpg\" alt=\"V0012882_web\" width=\"1608\" height=\"1208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012882_web.jpg 1608w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012882_web-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012882_web-1024x769.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1608px) 100vw, 1608px\" \/><\/a>Kensington&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012881_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3374\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012881_web.jpg\" alt=\"V0012881_web\" width=\"1556\" height=\"1188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012881_web.jpg 1556w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012881_web-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012881_web-1024x781.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1556px) 100vw, 1556px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and Victoria\/ Vauxhall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012880_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3373\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012880_web.jpg\" alt=\"V0012880_web\" width=\"1666\" height=\"1233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012880_web.jpg 1666w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012880_web-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/V0012880_web-1024x757.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1666px) 100vw, 1666px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published in 1913 (and available to download from the Wellcome Library) this series of intriguing maps depict London&#8217;s &#8220;sites of medical interest&#8221;. \u00a0It looks like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[556,557,320,262,555,322],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic","tag-556","tag-bacon","tag-health","tag-medical","tag-medicine","tag-wellcome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}