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How’s Swine Flu Doing In London?

Photo by Herschell Hershey from the Londonist Flickr pool Swine flu is starting to creep back into the news agenda, as London apparently has more severely ill patients than anywhere else in the country (though note the final line of the Standard’s story: we have …

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London Lives From The 1911 Census

George V, yesterday As predicted, the newly released 1911 census data proved very popular yesterday. By midday, curious genealogists had browsed 7.2 million pages. The press have unearthed ancestors of several famous Londoners. As well as Beckham’s scavenger origins, and Winehouse’s Russian pedigree, we also …

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Private Data Goes Walkies Again

173 patient medical documents this time. The cache of personal information was discovered in a bag near Kingston Hospital. The files contain data on cancer and HIV patients plus ‘information on those attending conception and addiction clinics, as well as sexual disease and hepatitis test …