Sujet

Nurse cutting children's verminous hair, Finch Street Cleansing Station, London, 1911. Artist: Unknown.

Légende

Nurse cutting children's verminous hair, Finch Street Cleansing Station, Stepney, London, 1911. A nurse treats children whose hair is infested with lice and nits. Another woman sterilises clothes in a steriliser. At this time many people had no bathroom at home.

Date

1911

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B04_499

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

24,4Mo (913,5Ko) / 27,5cm x 22,3cm / 3245 x 2633 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal road building buildings London England female women woman people male boy boys child children girl girls interior indoors hygiene health medicine cutting queue waiting street sitting science insect lane patient avenue table hair location century inside treatment clinic nurse queuing furniture lady concept B&W whitechapel MONOCHROME head louse louse Sterilization Lice Council black & white black and white B W 1910s 20th century infested public health Tower Hamlets Guildhall Library & Art Gallery Greater London Council London County Council Stepney TGN photograph GLC sterilisation sterilising equipment Unknown LCC head lice nit nurse sterilizing equipment cleansing station Finch Street Finch Street Cleansing Station steriliser