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Below, silhouettes of the people with pagoda in background. The print refers to cholera and dysentery. The flies are in an American style (Walt Disney, Dr Seuss), perhaps as a reminiscence of anti-American propaganda about germ warfare

Guangdong people's government hygiene regulations.

Guangdong people's government hygiene regulations

1 print : lithograph, printed in black and orange ; sheet approximately 78.7 x 26.5 cm.

A fleet of flies dropping bombs on the Chinese people, causing mayhem and confusion. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).

Xiaomei Cangying (Eradicating flies). Set catalogued lacks the first slide carrying the obligatory Mao quotation

13 photographs : transparencies, in colour ; mounts 8 x 810 cm + printed leaflet in original envelope

Hygiene measures to be taken in China against fly-borne diseases. Colour photographs, ca. 1955.

1 print : lithograph, printed in orange and black ; sheet 37.1 x 24.1 cm

A fly; representing the danger of food poisoning through flies. Colour lithograph, 196-.

Publications of the University of Manchester. Biological series

Medical Heritage Library

xiii pages, 1 leaf, 195 pages : illustrations, plates (part folded and color) ; 24 cm.

The house fly Musca domestica, Linnæus : a study of its structure, development, bionomics and economy / by C. Gordon Hewitt.

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 50.6 x 40.5 cm

Diseases spread by the house fly. Colour lithograph by L.H. Wilder for the U.S. Public Health Service, 1912/1922.

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

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

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.

Top left and right, Death with his scythe and vultures. Down the centre, a column of skulls. In the background of the upper right scene, a poster warning against cholera

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 76 x 63.3 cm

Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.

London County Council. Public Health Department

6 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : black and white illustrations, graphs ; 33 cm.

Nuisance from flies / report by the medical officer presenting a report by Dr. Hamer, medical officer (general purposes), on the extent to which fly nuisance is produced in London by accumulations of offensive matter.

48 pages : plates, facsimiles (1 folded), diagrams (partly folded) ; 28 cm

The house-fly at the bar, indictment, guilty or not guilty? : Evidence: in the matter of the people against the common house fly. April, 1909, the Merchants' Association of New York.

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A fleet of flies dropping bombs on the Chinese people, causing mayhem and confusion. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).

Hygiene measures to be taken in China against fly-borne diseases. Colour photographs, ca. 1955.

A fly; representing the danger of food poisoning through flies. Colour lithograph, 196-.

The house fly Musca domestica, Linnæus : a study of its structure, development, bionomics and economy / by C. Gordon Hewitt.

Diseases spread by the house fly. Colour lithograph by L.H. Wilder for the U.S. Public Health Service, 1912/1922.

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.

Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.

Nuisance from flies / report by the medical officer presenting a report by Dr. Hamer, medical officer (general purposes), on the extent to which fly nuisance is produced in London by accumulations of offensive matter.

The house-fly at the bar, indictment, guilty or not guilty? : Evidence: in the matter of the people against the common house fly. April, 1909, the Merchants' Association of New York.

The danger of disease from flies and lice.

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A fleet of flies dropping bombs on the Chinese people, causing mayhem and confusion. Colour lithograph, 1952 (?).

Hygiene measures to be taken in China against fly-borne diseases. Colour photographs, ca. 1955.

A fly; representing the danger of food poisoning through flies. Colour lithograph, 196-.

The house fly Musca domestica, Linnæus : a study of its structure, development, bionomics and economy / by C. Gordon Hewitt.

Diseases spread by the house fly. Colour lithograph by L.H. Wilder for the U.S. Public Health Service, 1912/1922.

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.

Unhygienic practices which lead to death from cholera. Colour lithograph by S. Pogorelskii, 192-.

Nuisance from flies / report by the medical officer presenting a report by Dr. Hamer, medical officer (general purposes), on the extent to which fly nuisance is produced in London by accumulations of offensive matter.

The house-fly at the bar, indictment, guilty or not guilty? : Evidence: in the matter of the people against the common house fly. April, 1909, the Merchants' Association of New York.

The danger of disease from flies and lice.

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