Hygiene Collection (page 3)

Advert for Wrights Coal Tar soap 1915
Advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar soap, the ideal Christmas present to send to a soldier at the front, along with a stick of Coal tar shaving soap

Sanitary Department on parade, WW1
The newly formed Sanitary Department on parade at the start of the First World War. Date: August 1914

Advert for Sanitas - family antiseptic for wounds 1937
Just a small wound but.... I never run the risk of blood poisoning. As soon as any member of my family gets a scratch or cut, let alone a more serious wound, I instantly apply Sanitas

A food hygiene course
Two chefs prepare food infront of a predominantly female audience who take notes and listen keenly to the two experts. The blackboard behind the cooks has details of todays dishes which include beef

Adolphe Trebuchet
ADOLPHE TREBUCHET French medical active in public hygiene, lighting etc. Date: 1801 - ?

Genoa, Italy - International Exhibition
The International Exhibition of Marine and Maritime Hygiene - Italian Colonial Show (Esposizione Internazionale d Igiene Marinara e Mostra Coloniale) was held in Genoa in 1914

Amoreta Soap
Amoreta soap made from Parisian sweet beef suet, not six month old rancid Australian mutton tallow. 1899 1899

Hygiene de guerre. Mother serving food at the dinner table. Rules of a healthy diet written below. Date 1918. Hygiene de guerre. Mother serving food at the dinner table

Stamp out syphilis Every baby is entitled to be born healthy : Blood test & examination should be made before marriage by your doctor or Bureau of Social Hygiene Clinic, 51 Stuyvesant Place

Sesam soap advert
Poster for the Sesam soap, Danish 1885, Date: 1885

Testing Milk

Poster, Clean and Fit and Happy Too! Showing people in different countries attending to personal hygiene. Issued by the (British) Health and Cleanliness Council. 1939

Poster, The Castle of Cleanliness in the Land of Good Health, defended by the soap and water brigade. Issued by the Health and Cleanliness Council. 20th century

Pigeon hygiene -- the only parts requiring human intervention are the claws, which are washed in Quassia chips to kill insects. circa 1940s

Toilet / Cleaning Nostrils
A German lady cleans her nostrils with the aid of a water spray. Date: 1905

Wet-Nurse with Straw
Hygiene in the nursery : a French child imbibes its wet-nurses milk through a straw... Date: 1907

Sanitas - destroys all disease germs
An advertisement for Sanitas brand disinfectant fluid, as recommended by medical journal The Lancet. Hygiea, Greek goddess of health

German hospital
German hygiene measures at a field hospital in a factory during World War I on the Western Front

Surgeons operating at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall
Three surgeons operating at Hayle Hospital, Cornwall

Queen Annes Bath, Holborn, London
This natural spring in Endell Street, Holborn, was much favoured by Queen Anne, so it was named after her

Soldiers washing 1917
Soldiers washing in a shell hole in Blangy on the British Front in France during World War I on 5th June 1917

Washing in a shell hole 1917
A British soldier washing in a shell hole in France on the British front during World War I on 21st April 1917

Egypt - River Nile - Water carriers fill their water skins
Slightly before Mr Evian, Mr Volvic and Mr Malvern took a firm grip on the market, this is how visitors to Egypt were supplied with fresh drinking water

Hiking Sanitary Towels
Advert for Southalls compressed sanitary towels, each one packed with two safety pins and made especially for hikers! Talk about cashing in!

Using Williams Talc
Williams Talc Powder

Woman Brushing Teeth
A woman poses with a toothbrush, displaying her white teeth and immaculate lipstick

Cleaning False Teeth
She cleans her false teeth

Toilet / Teeth / Ricole 19C
Cleaning teeth with Ricoles dentifrice, containing menthe for freshness

Two Old Drunks (Bobbin)
Heavy drinking has taken its toll on a pair of elderly drunkards with gnarled features and poor personal hygiene

Children Clean Teeth
Children at the National Adoption Societys home in Harlesden brush their teeth standing at a wooden table using bowls

Sickness / Laying of Straw
Straw is laid outside a sick persons house

Max Von Pettenkofer
MAX VON PETTENKOFER German professor of hygiene

Fashionable Duel
Todays fashionable duels are fought in a public location, wth all the benefits of hygiene and progress

About to Clean Teeth
This lady is about to clean her teeth with Dubarrys Tooth Paste which is supplied in a Collapsible Tube

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