Sujet

A copy of a photograph of the ward deck of the Atlas Smallpox Hospital Ship, c1890-c1899. Artist: Unknown.

Légende

A copy of a photograph of the ward deck of the Atlas Smallpox Hospital Ship, c1890-c1899. Joyce Green Hospital was once the centrepiece of the Metropolitan Asylums Board complex of smallpox and isolation hospitals. The hospital had a railway system, which conveyed patients from ambulance steamers bringing them down river. The pier, the steamers and the horse-drawn trams have now all vanished. In 1903 the Joyce Green Smallpox Hospital opened at Dartford, Kent, replacing the old wooden battleships (Atlas and Endymion) which had been used as smallpox hospitals.

Date

1899

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B04_233

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

28,8Mo (1,1Mo) / 31,9cm x 22,6cm / 3765 x 2673 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation England female women woman people health hospital medicine science ship ships bed bedroom room patient deck century Kent nurse ward disease lady B&W MONOCHROME on deck 19th century water transport Council black & white black and white B W Dartford nineteenth century Guildhall Library & Art Gallery bedchamber Greater London Council smallpox TGN photograph GLC on board Unknown London County Council Photograph Library Atlas Smallpox Hospital Ship Joyce Green Hospital