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Public health & hygiene

These objects tell the story of government and campaigning efforts to improve public health, notably through vaccination, as well as through the everyday items we use to maintain or improve personal hygiene.

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35 of 35 Cards illustrating Diseases and their Prevention, produced in association with UNICEF, 1980-83

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1983

VD... don't risk it! learn about it!

Public Health & Hygiene

1950-1968

10 of 35 Cards illustrating Diseases and their Prevention, produced in association with UNICEF, 1980-83

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1983

33 of 35 Cards illustrating Diseases and their Prevention, produced in association with UNICEF, 1980-83

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1983

Sterile taking set for blood transfusion

Public Health & Hygiene

If you're coming out, ask a helpline about absolutely anything

Public Health & Hygiene

1987-1995

27 of 35 Cards illustrating Diseases and their Prevention, produced in association with UNICEF, 1980-83

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1983

Thinking of having sex for the first time?

Public Health & Hygiene

1987-1995

Taking condoms on holiday won't save your life

Public Health & Hygiene

1988

19 of 35 Cards illustrating Diseases and their Prevention, produced in association with UNICEF, 1980-83

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1983

If AIDS only affects 0.002% of the population, why is this advertisement appearing in every national daily newspaper?

Public Health & Hygiene

1986-1990

3 of 35 Cards illustrating Diseases and their Prevention, produced in association with UNICEF, 1980-83

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1983

23 of 35 Cards illustrating Diseases and their Prevention, produced in association with UNICEF, 1980-83

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1983

First aid notice, England, 1901-1950

Public Health & Hygiene

1901-1950

Steel spittoon, Iran, 1701-1900

Public Health & Hygiene

1701-1900

Blue glass sputum bottle, England, 1871-1920

Public Health & Hygiene

1871-1920

Tuberculin hypodermic syringe, Germany, 1901-1930

Public Health & Hygiene

1901-1930

Black Pill Mass

Public Health & Hygiene

1900-1950

'Otis King Calculator', cylindrical slide rule, England, 1920-1939

Public Health & Hygiene

1920-1939

Five rolls of stickers campaigning for AIDS awareness, New York, United States, 1987-1993

Public Health & Hygiene

1987-1993

Colostomy belt, fabric, English, 1920-1940

Public Health & Hygiene

1920-1940

Freeze-dried BCG vaccine

Public Health & Hygiene

1994

Vials of freeze-dried intradermal BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine,1 of 10, boxed, each providing ten 0.1ml doses when hydrated, for protection against tuberculosis, by Evans Medical Ltd. Leatherhead, England, 1994

Vial of BCG vaccine

Public Health & Hygiene

1994

He said his first word today…so Mummy gave him something to rot away his teeth

Public Health & Hygiene

1992

Manchester Hospital Parade Cup

Public Health & Hygiene

1930

Influenza vaccine, for 2000-2001 strains

Public Health & Hygiene

2000

Plastic container for glass slides from smallpox diagnosis kit for collecting samples from suspected British cases of smallpox, for identification at the Central Public Health Laboratory, 1970-1979

Container for slides, from smallpox diagnosis kit

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1979

Glass slide from smallpox diagnosis kit for collecting samples from suspected British cases of smallpox, for identification at the Central Public Health Laboratory, 1970-1979

Glass slide from smallpox diagnosis kit

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1979

Limpet vaccination dressing

Public Health & Hygiene

1901-1940

Swab used in measles frequency studies, London, England, 1996

Public Health & Hygiene

1996

Earthenware beetle trap, London, England, 1851-1900

Public Health & Hygiene

1851-1900

Roux-type hypodermic syringe, London, England, 1890-1910

Public Health & Hygiene

1890-1910

Bedpan

Public Health & Hygiene

1790-1805

Box for von Pirquet's tuberculin test, London, England, 1910-1914

Public Health & Hygiene

1910-1914

Vaccination scarificator, 1801-1850, by Millikin, English

Vaccination scarificator

Public Health & Hygiene

1822-1875

Trial packaging for Calmette's tuberculin test, London, England, 1910-1914

Public Health & Hygiene

1910-1914

Double wooden latrine seat, United Kingdom, 1914-1918

Public Health & Hygiene

1914-1918

AIDS can affect anyone

Public Health & Hygiene

1987-1999

No catch

Public Health & Hygiene

1981-1987

Dried sera for blood grouping

Public Health & Hygiene

1930-1939

Four bottles of tetanus vaccine, by Sächs . Serumwerk, G.m.b.H

Public Health & Hygiene

Barber's shaving bowl

Public Health & Hygiene

1801-1900

Gown and mask

Public Health & Hygiene

Vaccination lancet belonging to Jenner

Public Health & Hygiene

Rabies vaccine and distilled water

Public Health & Hygiene

Soper-type portable disinfector, England, 1879-1913

Public Health & Hygiene

1879-1913

No Smoking

Public Health & Hygiene

1970-1980

15 of 35 Cards illustrating Diseases and their Prevention, produced in association with UNICEF, 1980-83

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1983

If your sex life is unprotected, so too is your relationship

Public Health & Hygiene

1986-1990

25 of 35 Cards illustrating Diseases and their Prevention, produced in association with UNICEF, 1980-83

Public Health & Hygiene

1980-1983

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