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Epidemic threats and racist legacies
Epidemiology is the systematic, data-driven study of health and disease in populations. But as historian Jacob Steere-Williams suggests, this most scientific of fields emerged in the 19th century imbued with a doctrine of Western imperialism – a legacy that continues to influence how we talk about disease.
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Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
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Report of Royal Commission upon the Administration and Operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Contagious Diseases Acts.Date: 1871- Journals
Bulletin / Sleeping Sickness Bureau.
Date: 1908-1911- Journals
Sleeping sickness bulletin.
Date: 1912
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Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 27 February 1893 ; - for, Return "showing the area and population according to the last census of every urban and rural sanitary district in England and Wales, and also showing as regards every such district and every port sanitary district in England and Wales, whether the Sanitary Authority had, on or before the 31st day of December 1892 made special provision for any accommodation of the nature of an islolation hospital (other than in connection with workhouses) for cases of infectious disease arising in their district, and, if so, giving the folliowing further particulars, &c."
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: 1895
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Tropical diseases bulletin.