Stories
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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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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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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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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
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Lady nurses for the sick poor in our London workhouses : report of proceedings at the Strand Union Board of Guardians, September 4, 1866 / from the short hand notes of John While ; with an appendix.
Date: 1866- Books
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The life of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England. By Mr. Mallet. With an appendix, Containing Several Pieces not printed in the last Edition of his Works. Published from the Original Mss in the Possession of the Right Honourable the Earl of Oxford.
Mallet, David, 1705?-1765.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]