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Workhouse Quiz



Question 5

What person links postage stamps and smallpox (Rowland Hill / Joseph Rogers / John Snow)?


Sir Rowland Hill — postage stamp pioneer and resident of Hampstead where he led protests against construction of a new smallpox hospital for London's poor.


 

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