Orchard Hospital entrance c.1916 Snowden's
Soldiers at the entrance to the Orchard Convalescent Hospital at Long Reach, near Dartford, during its First World War deployment as a military hospital for overseas troops, mainly Australians. The hospital was originally opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1902 as temporary accommodation a smallpox epidemic
Picture No
10512852
Media ID
47553743
Size
5753px x 3573px
(2.3MB)
Credit
Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard published by Snowden's
Date
circa 1916
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Accommodation Asylums Australians Convalescent Dartford Deployment Epidemic Mainly Orchard Pauper Reach Smallpox Temporary
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