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  • A father considers whether he needs another child: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, ca. 1994.
  • A despondent father sits surrounded by his large family: family planning in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, ca. 1994.
  • A contented mother breastfeeds her baby in a hospital bed tended by a nurse: promoting benefits of breastfeeding in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health & Social Welfare, ca. 1994.
  • A man hugging a woman and raising her from the floor representing an advertisement for the 8th course on AIDS education for students at the Instituto Marqués de Santillana on 13 December 1996; organised by the Centre de Estudios Sociales Aplicados [Center of Applied Social Studies] and the Gobierno de Cantabria Consejeria de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar Social [Government of Cantabria, Department of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare]. Colour lithograph by Michael Emberly, 1996.
  • Liverpool Food and Betterment Association. Taking out food to the sick poor.
  • Letter: Princess Mary of Teck recommens a patient to a charity
  • A woman tells her friend how she pretended to be poor and got free accommodation at the Hospital Lariboisière for 40 days. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
  • Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.
  • The destitute wait for welfare assistance; an old man is told by an official that he will have to come back in eight days. Colour reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • British seamen for British ships : the increase of the foreign element in our mercantile marine & the gradual elimination of the British sailor is becoming a grave national danger / The Marine Society.
  • British seamen for British ships : the increase of the foreign element in our mercantile marine & the gradual elimination of the British sailor is becoming a grave national danger / The Marine Society.
  • British seamen for British ships : the increase of the foreign element in our mercantile marine & the gradual elimination of the British sailor is becoming a grave national danger / The Marine Society.
  • How to get help after air raid damage.
  • How to get help after air raid damage.
  • [Small fund-raising sticker for the families of soldiers issued by the Municipio de Genova].
  • Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
  • Eastern-Dispensary for Relief of the Poor : Great Alie Street, 179 : having been received as a patient under the care of.
  • A politician out canvassing curses himself for climbing six floors to the room of an impoverished mother and her young offspring, none of whom are electorally valuable. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
  • Ration books to be kept : the Welfare Foods Service continues after rationing ends. The present ration book is proof of entitlement to cheap or free milk / Welfare Foods Service.
  • An old wet nurse; symbolising France as nanny-state and public health provider. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, 1901.
  • A man and woman with speech bubbles below and a man sick with AIDS awaiting treatment in a hospital with his wife above; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministry of Health, Tanzania. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A man contemplates the logistics of having more children: family planning in Lagos, Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Lagos State Ministry of Health, ca. 1994.
  • The face of a woman looks out as a man comes close to her representing an advertisement for safer sex by Health and Welfare Canada. Colour lithograph.
  • The face of a woman looks out as a man comes close to her representing an advertisement for safer sex by Health and Welfare Canada. Colour lithograph.
  • A skull, a tumbler of beer and a bottle of alcoholic drink; advertising the danger of alcohol as a cause of industrial accidents in Czechoslovakia, and contrasting it with milk. Colour lithograph, 193- (?).
  • Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, London: Queen Mary visiting a children's ward. Photograph, 192-.