Title

Europeans in a smallpox quarantine camp at El Tor, North Africa, 1884. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Europeans in a smallpox quarantine camp at El Tor, North Africa, 1884. Passengers from the SS Mira at a camp on the Arabian Coast. The image shows: 1) Wooden Sheds on Shore for the Passengers of Quarantined Ships. 2) Abdil Al, an Egyptian Resident at El Tor,Told Off to Wait Upon the English Sojourners. 3) Interior of the Ladies' Quarantine Shed. 4) El Tor, from the Sea. In the centre, female passengers in the Ladies' Quarantine Shed are sitting under a net to protect them from mosquitos and malaria. From The Graphic, (London, 19 July 1884).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1884

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_385

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,0Mb (4,4Mb) / 16,4in x 12,1in / 4917 x 3625 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation Europe Africa female women woman people male net man men health medicine country Egypt science guy ship ships continent European bed bedroom room Egyptian passengers passenger location Victorian century shed disease lady B&W North Africa MONOCHROME infection quarantine dormitory contagion contagious 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W mosquito net nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive Arabian Coast bedchamber El Tor malaria Mira smallpox SS Mira TGN Tur Sinai Unknown