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[Newspaper cutting about multiple births ('Ten children at a birth') in Blackburn (1786) and Sheffield (1833)].

The original and celebrated General Tom Thumb, the world-renowned American man in miniature : the smallest man alive ... is holding his farewell levees at the Town Hall Assembly Rooms Blackburn : on Friday & Saturday January 7th and 8th, 1859.

[Report 1967] / School Medical Officer of Health, Blackburn County Borough.

[Report 1968] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackburn County Borough.

[Report 1940] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackburn R.D.C.

[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackburn R.D.C.

[Report 1933] / Medical Officer of Health, Blackburn County Borough.

Report upon the sanitary conditions of the public elementary schools of Blackburn / by Alfred Greenwood.

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Blackburn (England)

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Report upon the sanitary conditions of the public elementary schools of Blackburn / by Alfred Greenwood.

Blackburn (England)

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Report upon the sanitary conditions of the public elementary schools of Blackburn / by Alfred Greenwood.

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