St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey: a boy wearing callipers, resting on wooden sticks with a nurse behind him. Photograph, c. 1935.

Date:
[1935-1937]
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29289i
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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1935-1937]

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1 photograph : photoprint, silver gelatin ; sheet 10.5 x 6 cm

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Anterior poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis. Brother of no.3 - aged 4. The lettering is hand-written onto the mount in silver pen The photograph is numbered 4 on the mount

Notes

The photograph is part of a collection presented to the Wellcome Institute Library by Rev. John P. Caton B.D., on 26th January 1989. The photographs were taken by Caton's late wife, Margaret Jane Seymour Caton when she worked as a nurse at St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey, between 1935 and 1937. The hospital was later known as the Rowley Bristow Hospital

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Wellcome Collection 29289i

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