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Female catkins on a willow tree, representing an archaic Chinese nickname for sexually transmitted diseases, with the message that AIDS is worse. Colour lithograph by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong, ca. 1997.

Hong Kong: Freemasons' Hall in Zetland Street. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

Guidelines for a joint labour-management workplace policy on AIDS with logo illustrations by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A telephone representing an advertisement for the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.

The numbers of the AIDS Hotline in Hong Kong '2780 2211' arranged in squares in a semi-circle with the silhouette of a hand pointing to the digits of a telephone below; advertisement by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Crabs representing a nickname for pubic lice or 'VD' with chinese lettering; a safe-sex advertisement by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.

Queen's Road west, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Buddhist temple, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

An ear filled with a bulging brick wall representing the problems of not listening to the facts about AIDS; advertising the AIDS Concern Hotline, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.

World War One: a Royal Naval hospital, Hong Kong: a ward interior with empty beds. Photograph, 1914/1918.

A row of men and women along the bottom with the message that the best way to protect against AIDS is to talk about it; an advertisement issued by the Central Health Education Unit, Department of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A large syringe about to inject into a row of arms with a personification of the HIV virus bearing a red bandana and the pronged fork of the devil lurks nearby; a warning about the dangers of sharing needles by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

An enumeration of Chinese materia medica / Shiu-ying Hu ; with editorial assistance from Y.C. Kong and Paul P.H. But.

Inauguration of the Li Shu Fan Medical Foundation, 3rd March, 1963 : commemorative volume.

The Peak, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1868/1871.

L'hôpital de Cery : 1873-1973 / Claude Secrétan.

Bubonic plague. : Memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

Hong Kong : bubonic plague memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.

Plague cases treated in the Kennedy Town hospital / Hong Kong.

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Hong Kong

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Images referencing Hong Kong

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Bubonic plague. : Memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

Hong Kong : bubonic plague memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.

Plague cases treated in the Kennedy Town hospital / Hong Kong.

Hong Kong

Images from the collections

Images referencing Hong Kong

Works from the collections

Bubonic plague. : Memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.

Hong Kong : bubonic plague memorandum on the treatment of patients in their own homes and in local hospitals.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884.

Plague cases treated in the Kennedy Town hospital / Hong Kong.

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