Nurses inside the river ambulance Geneva Cross

Scene inside the river ambulance Geneva Cross. Along with two other river ambulances it was operated by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to transport smallpox patients from London down the Thames to the hospital ships Atlas, Endymion and Castalia, which were moored at Long Reach near Dartford, Kent. Two nurses attend patients lying in box-like beds

Ambulance Ambulances Asylums Atlas Beds Castalia Dartford Endymion Floorboards Geneva Isolation Moored Patients Reach Smallpox

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