Tenement building, Cuba: an interior view of the entrance courtyard, with stairs to upper floors. Photograph, 1902.

[1902]

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 19.8 x 23.6 cm

Accompanying notes explain that this tenement house was overcrowded and there was a high level of poverty among the inhabitants. The building was without light or ventilation and there was much evidence of tuberculosis

One of a series of photographs of Cuban dwellings, factories and dispensaries, investigating the occurence of tuberculosis

Wellcome Collection 582149i