Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: a food shop interior with Malay staff, where an outbreak of typhus occurred. Photograph, 1915/1925.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: an arcade of shops with a road sweeper at work in the street. Photograph, 1915/1925.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: three men in pale-coloured suits holding up pipes blocked with grass roots. Photograph, 1910/1920 (?).

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: busy street scene showing the K. Mohamed Kassim eating house where a case of typhus occurred. Photograph, 1915/1925.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: a food shop with Malay staff, showing open sacks and boxes of produce, in an urban area prone to outbreaks of typhus. Photograph, 1915/1925.

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