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Pollution

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  • A man and woman, semi-nude but bedecked with jewellery, accompanied by Death, are kneeling on a representation of the poor: in the background are factories with smoking chimneys. Lithograph after H. Schwaiger, ca. 1900.
  • Fumes emitting from a coach, a smoker and a factory: pollution in Kenya. Colour lithograph by B. Obara/E.W. Ngunga for Ministry of Health Division of Health Education, ca. 2000.
  • Bronchus, mucus and dust particle, SEM
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    Report upon inquiry as to the truth or otherwise of certain allegations contained in a memorial from the vicar and other inahbitants of Barking, in the county of Essex, calling attention to the pollution of the river Thames by the discharge of sewage through the Northern Main Outfall Sewer of the Metropolitan Board of Works / by Robert Rawlinson... together with minutes of proceedings, abstract, and index.

    Rawlinson, Robert, 1810-1898. | Date: 1870
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    Fumes emitting from a coach, a smoker and a factory: pollution in Kenya. Colour lithograph by B. Obara/E.W. Ngunga for Ministry of Health Division of Health Education, ca. 2000.

    | Date: [2000?] | Reference: 755715i
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    Environmental studies : Diamond : light for science / Diamond Light Source Ltd.

    Diamond Light Source (Firm) | Date: [between 2007 and 2010?]
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    Health on the move : policies for health promoting transport : the policy statement of the Transport and Health Study Group.

    | Date: [1991], ©1991
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    Wasteland : the dirty truth about what we throw away, where it goes, and why it matters / Oliver Franklin-Wallis.

    Franklin-Wallis, Oliver | Date: 2024
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