Stories
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Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
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Taking the piss
Council cuts have created public-toilet deserts across the UK, limiting journeys and days out for people whose medical conditions mean toilet access is essential. Campaigner Kevin Crowe highlights the issues.
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Beating the bodysnatchers
When a rise in grave robbing called for strong measures, mortsafes became the unassailable solution. Allison C. Meier explores.
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The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
Catalogue
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Report by the Sanitary Committee of Commissioners of Police on the Public Health (Scotland) Bill.
Date: [1849?]- Books
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A manual of public health and sanitary science : a practical guide to the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, and the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 ; for the use of county councillors, members of district committees, and their officers under these acts / by T.G. Nasmyth.
Date: 1890- Books
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A manual of public health and sanitary science : a practical guide to the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867, and the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889 : for the use of county councillors, members of district committees, and their officers under these acts / by T.G. Nasmyth.
Nasmyth, Thomas G.Date: 1890- Books
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Digest of decisions relating to the Poor Law of Scotland : with decisions under the Lands Valuation, Public Health, and Education Acts : with relative statutes / by John Alexander Reid.
Reid, John Alexander.Date: 1880- Books
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Medical cases, selected from the records of the Public Dispensary at Edinburgh : with remarks and observations / by Andrew Duncan, M.D. F.R. & A.S. Ed., physician to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for Scotland, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, and member of the Royal Societies of Medicine of Paris, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, &c.
Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.Date: 1784