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London, city of lost hospitals
Come on the trail of hundreds of ghost hospitals, whose remnants hold clues to medical treatments of the past.
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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.
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How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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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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A letter to the London Board of Health, offering a new, concise, and intelligible view of the leading phenomena of the present pestilential cholera / [Thomas Brown].
Brown, Thomas, of Musselburgh, active 1809.Date: 1832
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The Cholera gazette : consisting of documents communicated by the Central Board of Health, with intelligence relative to the disease, derived from other authentic sources.
Date: [1832?]
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The Cholera gazette : consisting of documents communicated by the Central Board of Health, with intelligence relative to the disease, derived from other authentic sources.
Date: [1832?]