Sujet

Views of St. Thomas's Hospital: the terrace of the hospital, 1895. Creator: George Meisenbach.

Légende

Views of St. Thomas's Hospital: the terrace of the hospital, 1895. '...the Governors...have appealed to the public for £100,000. The Queen has subscribed £100. A round £100,000 is a goodly aims, but larger sums have been raised fur less salutary purposes. St. Thomas's has never been among the begging hospitals. It has taken nothing from Hospital Saturday or Sunday funds, and not much from the dole-giving public. For three hundred years it has lived upon its own resources, which were not inconsiderable; but the shifting fortunes of the age have touched it to its material injury...the Governors have been obliged to close three of their principal wards, and to set apart two others for well-to-do-patients, whose payments they could no longer afford to reject. Here, therefore, are five wards taken from the needs of the poor, for St. Thomas's is, and always has been, essentially a poor man's charity...St. Thomas's...[is] one of the oldest existing hospitals in the kingdom...the new building at Westminster Bridge...[opened] in 1871. The present site - which, moreover, was the only available one - is about the finest for its purpose in Europe, and the hospital which stands on it must be a model for Europe during many generations'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM26A08_180

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

11,8Mo (936,7Ko) / 20,2cm x 14,7cm / 2380 x 1736 (300dpi)

Mots clés

nature exterior outdoors river tree building buildings London England River Thames Thames hospital plant plants British geography walkway location century Britain newspapers press fresh air B&W embankment Funding 19th century black & white black and white B W Lambeth nineteenth century trees The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News St Thomas' Hospital TGN ILN outside newspaper landscape Saint Thomas' Hospital George Meisenbach Meisenbach George 19th-century The Illustrated London News St Thomas's Hospital Meisenbach Georg Georg Meisenbach Georg Meisenbach & Co G&R Lavis Lavis G&R George & Rebecca Lavis Lavis George & Rebecca G. & R. Lavis Lavis G. & R.