Title

Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, 1871. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, 1871. This was under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and was built to meet the needs of the epidemic of the winter of 1870 to 1871. This shows a 'Nightingale' ward with windows opening top and bottom. With identical windows on the opposite side, ventillation could be adjusted. From The Illustrated London News. (London, 1871).
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1871

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B63_460

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,0Mb (3,7Mb) / 12,3in x 9,5in / 3677 x 2850 (300dpi)

Keywords

London England female women woman people male interior indoors job man men hygiene health hospital medicine pouring air science guy occupation bottles British bed bedroom room patient bottle Victorian century Britain doctor profession inside nurse ward disease nursing lady B&W Camden physician element MONOCHROME epidemic VENTILATION 19th century black & white black and white B W invalid nineteenth century feeding Oxford Science Archive bedchamber Hampstead Hampstead Smallpox Hospital Metropolitan Asylums Board smallpox Smallpox Hospital TGN engraving Unknown Florence Florence Nightingale Lady of the Lamp Nightingale Florence Nightingale engraving