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Oyster Catch / WhitstableOysters, found to be a valuable remedy for the influenza epidemic, are sorted and packed by fishermen in Whitstable, Kent, for distribution to the hospitals
Court for King CholeraA Court for King Cholera
Coughs & Sneezes PosterHumorous poster from the Ministry of Health showing a man sneezing without a handkerchief on a London Underground train during WWII
Malaria Epidemic 1901MALARIA Fighting malaria in Italy
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The Black Death. 14th century. Figure of a woman hit byThe Black Death. 14th century. Epidemic that ravaged the European continent. Figure of a woman hit by plague. Medieval Museum. Stockholm. Sweden. Date:
ZANCHI, Antonio (1631-1722). Death in Venice. 1666. Baroque art. Oil on canvas. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Museum of Art History)
Mrs Dubosc Taylor by Madame YevondeThe late Mrs Dubosc Taylor who died from influenza caught while on nursing duty in France at the end of the First World War
Two members of Gibraltar's police force questioning a Spanish boy on the gang-way of a refugee boat, August 1936. The Spanish Civil War, which started in the summer of 1936
PLAGUE CHILD SAVED 1665A child is saved from a plague-stricken house in London. Date: 1665
Victims of the Black Death plague in 1349Victims of the Black Death Date: 1349
Dance of Death, Great Plague of LondonA Dance of Death depiction at St Paul's Cathedral, during the Great Plague of London. Date: 1665
Lincoln after 1905 typhoid epedemicLincoln High Street after Lockdown ended in 1905. The city was hit by a major typhoid epidemic between November 1904 and August 1905
Muffled against the deadly bacilli in Manchuria, a doctor fully masked and a sanitary official, wearing a lint mask soaked in carbolic acid. Date: 1911
Advert for Milton against influenza 1918Advertisement for Milton sterilising fluid, recommended for preventing and relieving influenza at a time when Spanish flu was rapidly spreading across the world. 1918
The Great Plague of LondonTwo men holding handkerchiefs over their noses in an attempt to avoid catching the plague as they hurry through the London Streets
1892 / CHOLERA RIOT / RUSSIAIn the belief that doctors cause cholera, and that only God can cure it, the populace of Astrakhan riot. Date: 1892
Lady Victoria Brady (nee Pery) (1893 - 1918), only daughter of the 4th Earl and Countess of Limerick. Lady Victoria was a keen aviator and made a number of flights with Gustav Hamel
Milton influenza advertisement, 1919Advertisement for Milton disinfectant with advice to gargle with a diluted preparation thrice daily in order to ward off the influenza epidemic raging throughout post war Britain. Date: 1919
Hint to the Ministry of Health by Heath RobinsonA new fresh air bedroom for the prevention of flu. An outdoor bedroom designed by the ever-inventive William Heath Robinson, built (or rather)
Mr Drouets pauper school, Tooting, SurreyA view of the school for pauper children, privately run by Bartholomew Peter Drouet at Tooting in Surrey (now south west London). In 1849, a cholera epidemic broke out at the school
Cholera VictimA cholera victim
Cholera epidemic, Tiberias, IsraelCholera epidemic, Tiberias, Lower Galilee, Israel, 1-15 October 1918 -- chart drawn by the American Zionist Medical Unit (part of a missionary society), showing cases to the west of Bahar Jehud
Spain. Madrid. Womens room on the Hospital installed at theSpain. Madrid. Hospital installed at the Palace of Fine Arts on the occasion of the epidemic of cholera that threatened the city in 1890. Womens room. Engraving
Spain. Madrid. Provisional hospital. 1890Spain. Madrid. Provisional hospital installed in the Palace of Fine Arts on the occasion of the epidemic which threatened the city in 1890. Room for women. Colored engraving
PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895) French chemist and bacteriologistPASTEUR, Louis (Do?le, 1822-Villeneuve-l Etang, 1895) French chemist and bacteriologist. Discovery of rabies vaccine by Dr. Pasteur. Outside the Paris laboratory with the sick together
Plague Column in Graben, Vienna, AustriaPlague Column (or Trinity Column) in Graben (Grave Street), Vienna, Austria. The column commemorates a Great Plague epidemic of 1679. circa 1910s
A-Tich-oo! Influenza in 1918Influenza personified in the shape of a rather monstrous being tapping an unsuspecting chap on the head and announcing, Good evening! I m the new influenza. Date: 1918
Advert for Harlene hair product 1916Great Epidemic of hair trobles, if you suffer from scalp irritation, complete or partial baldness, straggling or weak hair, thin or falling hair, splitting hairs, over-greasiness of the scalp
SPAIN. Barcelona. Spain (1914). Religious procession in Barcelona on occasion of a typhus epidemic (November 1914). Sant Jaume Square
Fountain Hospital, Tooting, South LondonThe Fountain Hospital under construction in 1893. The 400-bed hospital, designed by Thomas W Aldwinckle, was erected and fitted out in nine weeks to deal with a scarlet fever epidemic in London
Group photo, Dr Berrys Serbian MissionA group photograph of Austrian prisoners and their nurses at Dr James Berrys Serbian Mission, a Red Cross Unit in Serbia during the First World War
Orchard Convalescent Hospital, Dartford, KentThe Orchard Convalescent Hospital at Long Reach, near Dartford, Kent, during its First World War deployment as a military hospital for overseas troops, mainly Australians
German troops vaccinatedGerman troops fighting on the Russian Front are vaccinated against cholera
Panic in a railway carriagePassengers flee a railway carriage in Florida after a female passenger shows symptoms of Yellow fever
Disinfection ServiceDisinfecting a room in Paris recently occupied by refugees
The Water of the Serpentine Magnified 200 Times, 1857Engraving showing a sample of water from the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London viewed at 200 times magnification, 1857. This particular sample was taken from the upper portion of the Serpentine
Russian cholera epidemicTransporting those who have died of cholera to the burial ground. Cholera broke out in St Petersburg in September 1908, with the first cases among people living in particularly unsanitary conditions
Diphtheria at WoolwichSketches of the diphtheria huts on Woolwich Common. The huts were used to confine those infected by the epidemic
The Red Cross ambulance steamerThe Red Cross steamer carrying patients during a smallpox epidemic to the hospital ships at Long Reach
Ward in the Hampstead small pox hospitalThe Hampstead hospital was one of the four fever and small pox hospitals in London. The building was erected in 1870 to cope with the small pox epidemic
The Cholera epidemic in FrancePassengers from Toulon and Marseilles being fumigated at the Paris station of the Lyons and Mediterranean railway. Travel played a large part in the spread of disease
An ambulance bringing in patients from Cape TownSketches from a temporary hospital at Renzskies Farm, caring for patients of the small pox epidemic
Cholera / Slums / 1852 / Puncha Court for King Cholera
Street DisinfectingPublic disinfectors with their cart : this is the authorities response to cholera and other plagues
Disinfecting a home - 2DISINFECTING A HOME Infected bedlinen is fumigated in a horse-drawn portable Stove to destroy germs of tuberculosis or cholera
Disinfecting a home - 1DISINFECTING A HOME Workers for the Paris prefecture disinfect a home where tuberculosis or cholera have occurred
Averting CholeraThe populace of Napoli, Italy, seek to avert the cholera plague by a religious procession