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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Report of the water-supply committee on the condition of the water supplied by the East London Water Works Company to the east end of London / Poplar District Board of Works.
Poplar (London, England). Board of Works.Date: 1866- Books
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Board of Works for the St. Olave's district, Southwark : report on the sanitary condition of the district / by J. Northcote Vinen.
Vinen, J. Northcote.Date: 1856- Books
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Board of Works for the district of St. Olave, Southwark : third annual report on the sanitary condition of the district, for the year ending March, 1859 / by J. Northcote Vinen.
Vinen, J. Northcote.Date: 1859- Books
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Board of Works for the St. Olave's district, Southwark : report on the sanitary condition of the district, for the year ending March 28th, 1857 / by J. Northcote Vinen.
Vinen, J. Northcote.Date: 1857- Books
Board of works for the Poplar district, reports of the nuisances and health committees, for Poplar, Bow, and Bromley.
Poplar (London, England). Board of Works.Date: 1866