The roles of the state in the maintenance of health in Great Britain, 1930s-1990s. Prints, photographs, documents.

Date:
[between 1900 and 1999]
Reference:
804686i
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About this work

Description

The 586 posters cover the following subjects: Blood donation (135); Children (44); Diseases (121: AIDS, asthma, colds and flu, diphtheria, epilepsy, meningitis, rabies, rubella, tetanus, tuberculosis); Drugs or narcotics (53); Miscellaneous (26: air-raids, disability, health and safety, health of the nation, hearing, incontinence, mental health, teeth); National Health Service services and charges (80: ambulance service, cervical screening, community care, emergency GPs, evaluation, fares to hospital, NHS 30th anniversary, prescription charges, spectacles); Nurses and midwives (87, including recruitment, Queen's Institute of District Nursing, etc.); Organ donation (44), Travel and health (8)

Publication/Creation

[Great Britain] : [Central Office of Information (COI) for the British government], [between 1900 and 1999]

Physical description

600 prints : lithographs, printed in colours ; various sizes
approximately 50 prints : lithographs mounted on foamboard ; various sizes
approximately 3,000 photographs, documents etc. ; various sizes

Reference

Wellcome Collection 804686i

Creator/production credits

Named designers include Reginald Mount, K.E. Anning, Milton Glaser, Abram Games. Most of the posters are produced by the Central Office of Information (COI) for the British government

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Where to find it

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    Closed stores
    		By appointmentManual request

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