A London Board of Health hunting after cases like a cholera.

London Board of Health searching the city for cholera during the 1832 epidemic. Lithograph, 1832.

Cholera : caused by food infected by the excretions of a previous case : how to prevent ... / Shanghai Municipal Council Public Health Department.

A toilet, washing hands, drinking treated water and cooking and storing food safely: how to prevent cholera in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.

Sanitary ramblings. Being sketches and illustrations of Bethnal Green. A type of the condition of the Metropolis and other large towns / [Hector Gavin].

The Metropolitan Laboratory, 32, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C. / H.S. Carpenter.

Poop scoop campaign / Lewisham Directorate of Environmental Services ; Contracts Management Group.

[Report] / Medical Officer of Health and School Medical Officer of Health, London County Council.

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Guerrilla public health

Two health centres, two ideologies

The birth of Britain's National Health Service

The family food of a kebab van man

The progress and diffusion of plague, cholera and yellow fever throughout the world, 1914-1917 / by R. Bruce Low.

Cholera and public health / Neil Tonge, Michael Quincey.

Cholera in Tynemouth in 1831-2, 1848-9, and 1853 / by E. Headlam Greenhow.

Dr. R.W. Johnstoneʹs report to the Local Government Board on the progress and diffusion of I. Plague, II. Cholera, III. Yellow fever, throughout the world during the year 1913.

Statistics of the incidence of notifiable infectious diseases in each sanitary district in England and Wales, and preliminary statement as to small-pox, plague, and cholera abroad during the year 1912.

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Guerrilla public health

Two health centres, two ideologies

The birth of Britain's National Health Service

The family food of a kebab van man

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Catalogue

The progress and diffusion of plague, cholera and yellow fever throughout the world, 1914-1917 / by R. Bruce Low.

Cholera and public health / Neil Tonge, Michael Quincey.

Cholera in Tynemouth in 1831-2, 1848-9, and 1853 / by E. Headlam Greenhow.

Dr. R.W. Johnstoneʹs report to the Local Government Board on the progress and diffusion of I. Plague, II. Cholera, III. Yellow fever, throughout the world during the year 1913.

Statistics of the incidence of notifiable infectious diseases in each sanitary district in England and Wales, and preliminary statement as to small-pox, plague, and cholera abroad during the year 1912.

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Stories

Guerrilla public health

Two health centres, two ideologies

The birth of Britain's National Health Service

The family food of a kebab van man

Images

Catalogue

The progress and diffusion of plague, cholera and yellow fever throughout the world, 1914-1917 / by R. Bruce Low.

Cholera and public health / Neil Tonge, Michael Quincey.

Cholera in Tynemouth in 1831-2, 1848-9, and 1853 / by E. Headlam Greenhow.

Dr. R.W. Johnstoneʹs report to the Local Government Board on the progress and diffusion of I. Plague, II. Cholera, III. Yellow fever, throughout the world during the year 1913.

Statistics of the incidence of notifiable infectious diseases in each sanitary district in England and Wales, and preliminary statement as to small-pox, plague, and cholera abroad during the year 1912.