India: metal rodent traps in a pile; the rat-catchers gather under a grass-roofed shelter to be paid. Watercolour by E. Schwarz-Lenoir, 1915/1935 (?).

1915-1935

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 12.4 x 18.7 cm

Checking the rats with the statement sent from the Health Department, as each rat-catcher has to be paid for the rats he brings. [J.A.] Turner and [B.K.] Goldsmith, Sanitation in India

J.A. Turner, Sanitation in India, with contributions by B.K. Goldsmith [et al.], The Times of India, Bombay, 1914

Wellcome Collection 566945i

One of eight watercolours showing the process of plague-preventative rat-catching in India, as described in J.A. Turner, Sanitation in India (op. cit.)