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Views of St. Thomas's Hospital: one of the wards, 1895. Creator: G&R Lavis.

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Views of St. Thomas's Hospital: one of the wards, 1895. 'The special wards include those set apart for "diseases peculiar to women" (21 beds); for diseases of the eye (25 beds); and for children under six years of age (30 beds). Some 180 beds are given to ordinary medical cases, and 230 to ordinary surgical cases...In their memorial to the Corporation of London, the Governors say that St. Thomas's has striven from the first faithfully to observe the three great duties of a hospital: to receive and tend the impoverished sick, to sustain and advance the arts of medicine and surgery, and "to train women in the noble business of nursing."...It is now five-and-thirty years since Miss Florence Nightingale was mainly instrumental in establishing a School for Nurses in the old St. Thomas's at London Bridge; and the example and efforts of that admirable and devoted lady have inspired many hundreds of women in the generation that has passed to take up and go through with a course of training that asks special gifts both of mind and body, and the reward of which, in the long run, is little more than the modest approbation of one's own heart'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.

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HRM26A08_179

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12,7Mo (942,3Ko) / 19,3cm x 16,5cm / 2283 x 1945 (300dpi)

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