A skeleton riding on a fly which excretes disease; representing the need to exterminate flies as a public health measure. Lithograph after design by L. Moragas Pomar, ca. 1925/1928.

  • Moragas Pomar, L.
Date:
[1925?/1928?]
Reference:
19995i
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Description

Of the diseases named (typhus, tuberculosis and enteritis), only the last is generally considered to be communicated by flies

Publication/Creation

[Barcelona?] : Instituto Municipal de Higiene, [1925?/1928?]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph(?) ; sheet 72.5 x 55.5 cm

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Lettering

Instituto Municipal de Higiene. Exterminad las moscas transporta ellas, los gérmenes de la enfermedad y de la muerte. tifus tuberculosis enteritis ; Dr Moragas Pomar Wellcome Library impression bears stamp of city of Barcelona

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19995i

Creator/production credits

Assumed (from stamp on the Wellcome Library impression) to have been issued by the Instituto Municipal de Higiene of Barcelona

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