The Jack Boddington Collection of Life Saving Medals

Holloway Cholera Medal 1849, circular, engraved medal, obv. inscribed, ‘A Token of Gratitude Presented to Dr Carrington by his poor patients for his unwearied attention during the Cholera, Holloway 1849’; rev. inscribed, ‘Blessed is he that considereth the poor. The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. Ps. 41.1.’, 46mm., silver-gilt, within an engraved silver-gilt frame with integral straight bar hinged suspension, with gilt brooch bar and buckle on ribbon, good very fine £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Boddington Collection of Life Saving Medals.

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Benjamin Carrington hailed from Essex and qualified as a L.S.A. in 1837 and a M.D. at St. Andrews University in 1846. He became the resident Medical Officer of the North Islington Islington Dispensary at Holloway, London, and served there at the time of the great cholera epidemic of 1849 - his services to his patients being rewarded by a specially engraved medal. For three terrible months in 1849 the cholera raged almost unchecked through the poor quarters of an unsanitary London. During this time some 13,250 deaths were ascribed to the disease.

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