M0003417: Linen workers roughing flax, Belfast / M0003417EB: Table showing the mortality rate from cancer in England and Wales, 1900-1902

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Mortality from cancer; England and Wales, 1900-2

Left-hand side on plate: Reproduction of a photograph of linen workers roughing flax at the York Street Flax Spinning Company, Belfast, with caption underneath, taken from an unidentifed publication. Right-hand side on plate: Reproduction from an unidentified publication, of a table showing the mortality rate from cancer for men aged 15 and over in England and Wales, 1900-1902, with caption and additional text.

14 March 1933

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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