Medicine in British hospitals in the 20th century. Photographs, ca. 1986-1987.

Subjects: photographs of hospital wards, dining rooms, gatehouses, dispensaries, asylums, surgeons, nurses, patients, surgical operations, equipment, laboratories, students, rubbish disposal, visitations, etc.

Places from which the slides were commissioned, include the following, and others. Beamish Museum, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Middlesex Hospital, Westminster Hospital, Royal Free Hospital, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester Polytechnic, Manchester Public Library, Physiological Society, Glasgow, Royal Society of Medicine, Wellcome Library, Science Museum. Photo libraries: Daily Herald, Picture Post, Mansell Collection. Publications including: Illustrated London news, The hospital, Sunday illustrated, British medical journal. Dates are predominantly 1900-1960

[England], [1986?-1987]

approximately 700 photographs : slides, black and white ; 35mm.

A card-catalogue describing each slide accompanies the slides

Wellcome Collection 754327i

Most are in copyright (2011)