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Mauritius / Royal Interocean Lines.

Feet of a Chinese woman, showing the effect of foot-binding. Photograph, 19--.

Paul and Virginie are found by their slave Domingue and their dog Fidele when they are  lost in the forests of Mauritius. Engraving.

Louise Chevalier in the role of Virginie is feeding water from her hands into the mouth of a black man in a loin-cloth. Mezzotint by J. Ward, 1799, after C. Henard.

Virginie resting by a fountain in Mauritius. Engraving by C. Heath, 1820, after R. Westall.

A man dispensing condoms from a machine: advert for durex condoms and family planning in Mauritius. Colour lithograph by Mauritius Family Planning Association, ca. 2000.

A slave is kneeling on the ground as Paul and Virginie try to protect him from a slave-owner holding a pipe and a stick. Engraving by G. Barrett, 1788, after J. Moreau.

An overcrowded map of Rodrigues, an island of Mauritius: family planning in Mauritius. Colour lithograph by Rodrigues Family Planning, ca. 2000.

Fièvre épidémique à Maurice en 1866-67 / par J. Labonté.

Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius.

Report on medical matters in Mauritius / by Andrew Balfour.

Report of the Committee appointed by government to investigate the history and particular conditions of the cholera-epidemic of 1854.

Report of the committee appointed by His Excellency the governor, to inquire into and report upon the probable cause or causes of the recent outbreak of cholera in the island of Mauritius in March 1856.

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Report of the Committee appointed by government to investigate the history and particular conditions of the cholera-epidemic of 1854.

Report of the committee appointed by His Excellency the governor, to inquire into and report upon the probable cause or causes of the recent outbreak of cholera in the island of Mauritius in March 1856.

Report of the Committee appointed by government to investigate the history and particular conditions of the cholera-epidemic of 1854.