Hahnemann Hospital and Homœopathic Dispensaries, Liverpool: a children's ward, decorated with flags possibly for the coronation of King George V. Photograph.

Above one of the beds, a notice says "Dr Watson's patient". Dr James Watson was Stipendiary Medical Officer, Hahnemann Hospital, Liverpool, from not later than 1902. Above another bed, a notice says "Dr Gordon Smith's patient": Robert Gordon Smith was Hon. Medical Officer, Hahnemann Hospital, Liverpool, from not later than 1906 Above one of the beds is a print of the painting by Sir Luke Fildes, called "The doctor": the painting was owned by Sir Henry Tate, the founder of the Hospital

[Liverpool?], [1910?]

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 27 x 37.3 cm

One of a group of photographs of the Hahnemann Hospital, Liverpool: see this catalogue, record nos. 44171-44177. Record nos. 44166-44169 have the same provenance. The Hahnemann Hospital, Liverpool, identified as the subject of the photographs from the names of the medical officers placed above the beds, was founded for the benefit of the sick poor of Liverpool by the sugar magnate (Sir) Henry Tate. After thirty years' personal experience of homoeopathy, he paid for the construction of the hospital in Hope Street, Liverpool, in 1887. It opened as a public general hospital, taking cases similar those admitted by the other general hospitals of the city. See T.H. Bickerton, A medical history of Liverpool, London 1936, p. 116

Wellcome Library no. 44175i

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