Maidstone typhoid epidemic

The risk of catching typhoid in nineteenth-century Britain and dying from it was a very real threat.

[1] The medical officer stopped keeping a record of the deaths after early October 1897 so more people may have died.

Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert had died from typhoid in 1861, which may explain her donation of £50 to the M.T.E.

Fig 2: Table Produced for the Local Government Board of Inquiry in to the Maidstone Typhoid Epidemic.

[5] As well as over 270 nurses members of the Army also worked, as well as volunteer cooks, laundry workers and many others.

The burial site of many of the people who died from typhoid
The gravestone of two young adults who died in the epidemic.
The front of the Maidstone typhoid epidemic medal
Some of the nurses who worked in the Maidstone Typhoid Epidemic (C) Maidstone Museums