Three steeplejacks on a high platform building a chimney, one of them coughing; representing the danger of coughing in the transmission of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph, 19--.

  • Humphreys, E. (Designer)
Date:
[between 1900 and 1999]
Reference:
978177i
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[London] : Issued by the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, [between 1900 and 1999]

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 24 x 37.5 cm

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Dangerous coughing! E. Humphreys Bears number "13" and a cross with two crossbars, which was adopted as the symbol of the fight against tuberculosis on 23 October 1902 at a Berlin conference, on the suggestion of Gilbert Sersiron. Bears logo of National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis: letters"NAPT" Refers to coughing as a path of transmission of tuberculosis

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Wellcome Collection 978177i

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