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

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[1902]
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582143i
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Tenement building 'Poloni', San Rafael Street, Corner Oquedo, Cuba: an exterior view of the building on laundry day, with the inhabitants outside. Photograph, 1902. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[1902]

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 19.5 x 24.2 cm

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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

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Wellcome Collection 582143i

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