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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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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The hell of hay fever
After years suffering in silence, David Jesudason finds speaking out about his pollen allergy gives him hope for a future where his hay-fever symptoms are under control.
Catalogue
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First [-third] address of the Committee of the Liverpool Health of Towns Association.
Liverpool Health of Towns' AssociationDate: [1847]- Books
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Public Health England and Association of Directors of Public Health survey findings : tackling obesity / Public Health England.
Date: 2014- Books
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The sanitary condition of the City of London: being a letter to the Lord Ashley from the City Remembrancer, on the statements of the Sub-Committee of the Health of Towns Association; with the Sub-Committee's reply and Lord Ashley's letter [T. Beggs, secretary].
Health of Towns Association (London, England)Date: 1848- Pictures
Thomas Southwood Smith speaking at a meeting of the Health of Towns Association. Wood engraving by Smyth after H. Anelay, 1847.
Anelay, Henry, 1817-1883.Date: [1847]Reference: 47146i- Books
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Report of the Health of Towns Association : read at a meeting held in the rooms of the Statistical Society, February 24, 1847.
Health of Towns Association (London, England)Date: 1847