India: a line of men carrying metal traps for plague prevention on their heads, from the Health Department stables to be distributed in the nearby city. Watercolour by E. Schwarz-Lenoir.

  • Schwarz-Lenoir, Ernest.
Date:
1915-1935
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566936i
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1915-1935

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1 painting : watercolour ; image 12.4 x 18.6 cm

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Shows the traps being taken from one of the Health Department stables to be distributed in the city. After [J.A.] Turner, Sanitation in India

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One of eight watercolours showing the process of plague-preventative rat-catching in India, as described in J.A. Turner, Sanitation in India (see 510 note below)

References note

J.A. Turner, Sanitation in India, with contributions by B.K. Goldsmith [et al.], The Times of India, Bombay, 1914

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Wellcome Collection 566936i

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