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.
- Moragas Pomar, L.
- Date:
- [1925?/1928?]
- Reference:
- 19995i
- Pictures
About this work
Description
Of the diseases named (typhus, tuberculosis and enteritis), only the last is generally considered to be communicated by flies
Publication/Creation
[Barcelona?] : Instituto Municipal de Higiene, [1925?/1928?]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph(?) ; sheet 72.5 x 55.5 cm
Lettering
Instituto Municipal de Higiene. Exterminad las moscas transporta ellas, los gérmenes de la enfermedad y de la muerte. tifus tuberculosis enteritis ; Dr Moragas Pomar
Wellcome Library impression bears stamp of city of Barcelona
Creator/production credits
Assumed (from stamp on the Wellcome Library impression) to have been issued by the Instituto Municipal de Higiene of Barcelona
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19995i
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores