What was in the Wellcome Collection’s Medicine Man exhibition?

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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.

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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

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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

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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.