Through the Lens Darkly: Thomas Annan, Public Health, and Infection Control in Victorian Glasgow
Join RCPSG as they take a trip through Victorian Glasgow as Dr Walker discusses the health of the city through the amazing photos of Thomas Annan!
About Through the Lens Darkly: Thomas Annan, Public Health, and Infection Control in Victorian Glasgow
For this year's Goodall Lecture we are delighted to welcome Dr Simon Walker (University of Glasgow) to the College. Join us as we take a trip through Victorian Glasgow as Dr Walker discusses the health of the city through the amazing photos of Thomas Annan.
Glasgow has always had a complicated relationship with Public Health. Streets away from one of the most prestigious medical universities and the homes of several medical innovations, Thomas Annan captured the squalor and deprivation of a city under siege from over population and disease. As the ‘second city of Empire’ Glasgow’s population had grown from approximately 100,000 in 1811 to over 750,000 in 1901. Industrialisation, the Highland Clearances, and new industry increasingly squeezed new people into the overcrowded city, creating ideal breeding grounds for disease amongst the streets and slums. In Glasgow in the 1830s and 1840s life expectancy was only 27, the lowest it had been since the Black Death. Dr Simon Walker takes us through the health history of a city in crisis by combining the iconic images of Thomas Annan’s Glasgow with an exploration of medical and public health improvements in the Victorian period.
Doors will open at 6pm for a wine reception along with the chance to see our current exhibition, Vaccination: Finding the Perfect Disease, which features images from Annan's work.
£3.99* from every ticket sale goes directly to the HOPE Foundation, a charity founded by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow to support health related projects locally, nationally and internationally. Find out more at hope.rcpsg.ac.uk
*(£6.00 minus VAT @ 20% and Eventbrite service charge @ 6.95%)
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