Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent
Aerial view of the echelon-shaped ward layout of the Joyce Green Hospital at Long Reach near Dartford, Kent. The hospital, opened in 1903 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board, was initially used for smallpox patients, brought from London by river ambulance. Admission was later extended to cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and whooping cough
Picture No
10418871
Media ID
47549102
Size
4823px x 3140px
(3.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard
Date
circa 1930
