Tenement building 'Poloni', San Rafael Street, Corner Oquedo, Cuba: an exterior view of the building on laundry day, with the inhabitants outside. Photograph, 1902.

[1902]

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 19.5 x 24.2 cm

Accompanying notes explain that this tenement house existed in a bad state of repair, with rotten roofs, floors and walls. The sanitary arrangements were poor, but the building was ventilated and there was very little evidence of tuberculosis

One of a series of photographs of Cuban dwellings, factories and dispensaries, investigating the occurrence of tuberculosis

Wellcome Collection 582143i