Fear & Fever: Living & Dying with Typhoid in Dublin
A new Typhoidland exhibition at Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
(June 16 2024 – March 31 2025)
Thomas Fitzpatrick,
‘”Dear, Dirty Dublin”: Wanted A Public Health Department’,
(design for The Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly), 1908.
Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, TF/4.
Not too long ago, typhoid caused terror across Dublin. Killing up to 1 in 5 of its
victims, the bacterial disease spread in the city’s water, food, and milk.
Discover how Irish scientists and public health workers learnt to track and
combat the disease and how ordinary Dubliners experienced typhoid.
Investigate the troubled history of early typhoid vaccine trials at what was the
Richmond District Lunatic Asylum (Grangegorman), and find out what
Ireland’s current public health experts are doing to control infectious disease
in an age of climate change, mass travel, and antimicrobial resistance.
Curated by Typhoidland.
A collaboration between Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Heritage Centre and the joint
IRC/AHRC-funded research project ‘Typhoid, Cockles & Terrorism’.
