St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a young porter standing by a lift in the new hall. Photograph, c. 1908.

The doorway to the right of the porter bears the warning: no admittance. The writing above the lift describes which departments are on which floors.The first floor houses out-patients, surgical and childrens; the second floor houses the departments for throat, eye, ear and women's; and the third floor houses the departments for skin, dental, electrical and deformities