‘LEAD CHILDREN’: JOLANTA WADOWSKA-KRÓL’S POLLUTION FIGHT
Jolanta Wadowska-Król, a dedicated Polish pediatrician, emerged as a courageous figure in the fight against environmental health threats during the communist era in Poland. In the 1970s, while working at the District Clinic in Szopienice—a working-class district of Katowice overshadowed by the Non-Ferrous Metal Smelter—she noticed an alarming pattern: local Continue Reading
The Victorian Deadly “Home Sweet Home”
The Victorian Lounge and Parlours The Victorians used Arsenic in their Dye process for wallpaper in the homes of many affluent urban middle class settled in Victorian Cities. Due to the smog outside people felt at home with the windows shut and their Victorian fire places burning while slowly Continue Reading
