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The interior of the thermal baths, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1814.

Boer War: wounded soldiers being escorted off the hospital train at Durban from Ladysmith. Watercolour by F. Dadd, 1899.

West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: a view of the recreation hall. Process print, 1926.

The hot baths and infirmary, Bath. Steel engraving by J.B. Allen, 1829, after T.H. Shepherd.

[Gilt-edged invitation card to the opening of the Red Cross Hospital, Downs Park Road, Clapton, London 29 January 1916].

The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles after L. P. Boitard, 1753.

A man in a striped t-shirt with his arm around another man who helps him to walk down a hospital corridor with a wheelchair and drip stand near by; with an appeal for support for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe donation account for the special care of the sick. Colour lithograph by Ingo Taubhorn and Wolfgang Mudra.

New York State Soldiers' Depot, New York City: the hospital. Colour lithograph, 1864.

The Middlesex Hospital: seen from the south. Wood engraving.

Hospital of St. Cross, Winchester, Hampshire. Etching by J. Shury & Son after G.S. Shepherd.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth. Engraving by Eastgate.

Hospital for Incurables, Blackwell Island, New York. Wood engraving by W.S.L. Jewett.

"The parish of St George-the-martyr is a veritable hospital town" : medical treatment available to the Holborn poor during the second half of the nineteenth century / Jacqueline Watson.

Annual report of the Board of Governors of the Eccles & Patricroft Hospital : 1928.

The story of the Bloomsbury dispensary / [Roma McAuliffe].

The Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury. Line engraving by Lester, 1810, after R. Dighton.

East India Company, Dinapore Division : letter book 1840-1841

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Hospitals

Images from the collections

Images referencing Hospitals

Works from the collections

"The parish of St George-the-martyr is a veritable hospital town" : medical treatment available to the Holborn poor during the second half of the nineteenth century / Jacqueline Watson.

Annual report of the Board of Governors of the Eccles & Patricroft Hospital : 1928.

The story of the Bloomsbury dispensary / [Roma McAuliffe].

The Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury. Line engraving by Lester, 1810, after R. Dighton.

East India Company, Dinapore Division : letter book 1840-1841

Hospitals

Images from the collections

Images referencing Hospitals

Works from the collections

"The parish of St George-the-martyr is a veritable hospital town" : medical treatment available to the Holborn poor during the second half of the nineteenth century / Jacqueline Watson.

Annual report of the Board of Governors of the Eccles & Patricroft Hospital : 1928.

The story of the Bloomsbury dispensary / [Roma McAuliffe].

The Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury. Line engraving by Lester, 1810, after R. Dighton.

East India Company, Dinapore Division : letter book 1840-1841

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