Stories
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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Dirt, disease and the Inspector of Nuisances
In the days when ‘bad air’ was thought to spread disease, dozens of Inspectors of Nuisances ceaselessly struggled against the perils of dirt – both visible and invisible.
![An authentic narrative of the melancholy occurrences at Bilston ... during the awful visitation ... by cholera, in ... August and September, 1832; to which are added, the proceedings of the local Board of Health, a list of contributors for the relief of the inhabitants, etc / [William Leigh].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0009563/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
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- Archives and manuscripts
David Corbet, Worcester, 4 March 1832, to William MacLean, Secretary to the Board of Health, Whitehall
Date: 1832Reference: MS.6793/2Part of: Miscellany: 1832 cholera outbreak
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London Board of Health searching the city for cholera during the 1832 epidemic. Lithograph, 1832.
Date: 1832Reference: 1998i- Archives and manuscripts
Printed letter from City of London Board of Health re Cholera, formerly used as wrapper
Date: 1832Reference: PP/HO/D/D69Part of: Hodgkin family
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Remarks on the proceedings of the Glasgow Board of Health : the projected Cholera Hospital ... etc.
Glasgow (Scotland). Board of Health.Date: [1832]- Archives and manuscripts
Gretna Board of Health
Date: 20-25 July 1832Reference: MS.6792