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Swimming pools

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  • Ten people at a swimming pool, one of whom will be infected with syphilis before the age of fifty. Lithograph after D. Fellnagel, 1940.
  • Safe activities in which the AIDS virus is not transmitted including top left shaking hands to blood donation bottom right with subtitles to diagrams in French; advertisement by CRAM, [La Caisse Régionale d'assurance Maladie de Bourgogne Franche-Comté]. Colour lithograph.
  • No catch : you won't get AIDS from swimming pools. You can get AIDS from sexual intercourse. So the more partners, the greater the risk. Protect yourself. Use a condom / TVS, Health Education Council.
  • Kalk, Fett, Rost, Grünspan, Algen : Calmic cleaning compounds, wir helfen ihnen / Calmic GmbH.
  • A healthy boy, protected from tuberculosis by fresh air and exercise. Colour lithograph by André Wilquin, 1942.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Handbook : City of Dundee Corporation Baths and wash-houses / with the compliments of Markets and Baths Committee.

    | Date: [1910]
    • Ephemera

    Highbury pool price list : swimming ... patio ... gym/swim.

    | Date: [1992]
    • Ephemera

    Take on a challenge : swim for Sport Relief 21-23 March 2014.

    | Date: 2014
    • Ephemera

    Small pool timetable : during school term / Highbury Pool.

    | Date: [1993]
    • Ephemera

    Dive into the new year : 7.30pm Wednesday 15 and 29 January and 5 February.

    | Date: [2014]
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