Stories
- Article
The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
- Article
Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
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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 tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
Catalogue
- Books
Cholera in Japan / Shun-Ichi Yamamoto.
Yamamoto, Shun-Ichi.- Books
Proceedings of the Cholera Research Symposium : January 24-29, 1965, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Cholera Research Symposium (1965 : Honolulu, Hawaii)Date: 1965- Books
An outbreak of cholera following a Hindu festival / by T. Frederick Pearce.
Pearce, T. Frederick.Date: 1909- Books
An enquiry into the causation of Asiatic cholera / by Neil Macleod and Walter J. Milles ; with experiments on anaimals by Neil Macleod.
MacLeod, Neil.Date: 1889- Archives and manuscripts
Cholera
Date: c.1950s-1970sReference: GC/178/E/6Part of: Chave, Sidney