Bournemouth: Diamond Jubilee Plaque (11)

The eleventh in a series of fifteen plaques unveiled to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee in 2012, following the history of Bournemouth through the ages using monarchs' reigns and jubilees as the steps in time. This eleventh one relates to the reign of Edward VIII (i.e. 20 January-11 December 1936). Although covering a very short timespan, this stone refers to a bleak period in the town's history, as it experiences Britain's worst ever milk-borne typhoid epidemic, with 718 cases. Investigations reveal that human bacteria had entered the drainage system from Merley House (in SZ0098) downstream of which cattle had of course drunk from. Consequently Bournemouth becomes the first town in England to pasteurise all of its milk. See SZ0890 : Bournemouth: Diamond Jubilee Plaques for the introductory plaque, and SZ0890 : Bournemouth: five of the Diamond Jubilee Plaques for an overall view of five of the plaques, providing some context. See SZ0890 : Bournemouth: Diamond Jubilee Plaque (10) for the previous plaque in the series, and SZ0890 : Bournemouth: Diamond Jubilee Plaque (12) for the next one.

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