Grove Military Hospital, Tooting Grove, Surrey
Children stand at the gates of the Grove Hospital at Tooting Grove, Surrey (now South London) during its First World War service as a military hospital. The Grove was one of five new hospitals opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1890s for the treatment of infectious diseases such as scarlet fever and diphtheria. The site is now occupied by St George's Hospital
Picture No
10418833
Media ID
47548969
Size
4334px x 2817px
(1.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard
Date
circa 1915
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