Stories
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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.
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How slums make people sick
A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.
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Collecting pandemic stories
Find out how personal notebook jottings from two flatmates became ‘Journals of a Pandemic’, a comprehensive diary-keeping project encompassing dozens of writers from a wide variety of backgrounds.
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The stranger who started an epidemic
New Orleans, 1853. James McGuigan arrives in the port city and succumbs to yellow fever.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Sanitation and hygiene
Date: c.1927-1935Reference: PP/HEW/C.7/1/5Part of: Whittingham, Sir Harold E., 1887-1983, Air Marshal- Digital Images
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Sanitation field worker in Lesotho
John & Penny Hubley- Digital Images
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Sanitation: ventilated improved pit latrine
John & Penny Hubley- Digital Images
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Sanitation: mother supervising child washing hands
John & Penny Hubley- Books
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Sanitation of Mofussil Bazaars ... Third edition.
Disney, G. W. (George William)Date: 1914