The Park Hospital, Hither Green, London
Laundry at the Park Hospital, Hither Green, south east London. Sheets in wooden trucks are processed by the female staff using belt powered ironing machines. The Park was one of the fever hospitals opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900 for the sick poor in metropolitan London
Picture No
10416104
Media ID
47518256
Size
5373px x 3626px
(6.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed printed photograph
Date
circa 1908
