Not Wellcome
The Wellcome Collection closed its own Medicine Man exhibition on the history of medicine, complaining that it was racist. Some of the treasures it displayed:
– Wax and cloth head of Elizabeth I, half of which shows a face and the other half a decomposing skull being consumed by insects.
– Pair of bellows used for blowing smoke into the rectum of people fished out of the Thames, which some doctors believed could revive them after near-drowning.
– Charles Darwin’s walking stick, topped with a skull.
– Napoleon’s toothbrush, made from silver and horsehair.
– A Japanese papier-mâché figure adorned with acupuncture points, used as a teaching aid.
Zero out
How do China’s – official – Covid figures compare with the rest of the world?
– China has recorded 9.6 million cases, equivalent to 683 per 100,000 population, and has suffered 30,010 deaths, a rate of 2.14 per 100,000.
– The UK has recorded 24 million cases (35,820 per 100,000) and 196,821 deaths (293 per 100,000).
– Globally, 6.6 million deaths have been recorded, a rate of 82.6 per 100,000.
– In China, 86.8% of people, officially, have completed an initial course of vaccine, compared with 74.6% in Britain.
Source: World Health Organisation
In the pipeline
How has UK oil and gas production performed in the past five years?
Oil (1000s tonnes) Gas (GWh)
2017 47,049 464,981
2018 51,551 451,157
2019 52,856 436,208
2020 49,362 439,394
2021 41,159 363,980
Source: BEIS
Home front
Is homelessness increasing? Number of households assessed as being owed a duty by local authorities in England:
2018/19 269,510 2020/21 270,560
2019/20 289,800 2021/22 278,110
Among those who were deemed to be owed a duty to be housed, 2% were male single parents, 25% female single parents, 29% single men, 21% single women, 13% couples with dependent children, 6% couples with no children and 3% households of more than three adults.
Source: Department for Levelling Up, Communities and Housing
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