Picture No | 10218178 |
Date | 1897 |
Description | An incubator nursery |
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Nurses attending to sick babies kept alive in a ward of incubators. The incubators pictured are from a design by Paul Altmann and distributed by Messrs Coney and Schenkhein. The machine was automatic with the temperature maintained by a thermostat. A chimney was positioned on top of the incubator, acting as an outlet for impure air.
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Source | The Sketch. 1897 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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