Stories
- Article
Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
- Article
Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Books
Enuresis : notes for the guidance of housemothers and other staff concerned with the care of children / London County Council, Public Health Department.
London County Council. Public Health DepartmentDate: 1952- Books
Public conveniences in London / report by the medical officer of health.
Menzies, F. N. KayDate: 1928- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Applications for the posts in Public Health Department, London County Council
Date: 1943Reference: PP/AEM/A.132Part of: Mourant, Arthur Ernest (1904-1994)- Books
London's refuse disposal / Greater London Council, Public Health Engineering Department.
Greater London Council. Department of Public Health EngineeringDate: [1976?]- Archives and manuscripts
Surrey County Council Public Health Department memoranda, letters of authorisation, and Medical Practitioners' Handbook
Date: 1924-1941Reference: SA/HVA/G.1/13Part of: Health Visitors' Association