St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley. Watercolour by F. Collins, 1881.
- Collins, Frank, active 1881.
- Date:
- 1881
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- 38716i
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The Smallpox and inoculation Hospital, formerly at St Pancras, moved to Highgate in 1848 with the coming of the Great Northern Railway
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1881
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1 painting : watercolour ; image 17.9 x 25.3 cm
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St Pancras Smallpox Hospital ; inside the enclosure ; The store-tent, lamp-tent & bath-tent (& nurses'tent)
References note
G. W. Collins, "The use of tents in the treatment of Small-pox", Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London, New Series 2, 1882-83, pp.158-164, has an account of the Finchley Camp, and of another at Wednesbury, Staffordshire
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Wellcome Collection 38716i
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