St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London: housed in a tented camp at Finchley. Watercolour by F. Collins, 1881.

  • Collins, Frank, active 1881.
Date:
1881
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38715i
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The Smallpox and inoculation Hospital, formerly at St Pancras, moved to Highgate in 1848 with the coming of the Great Northern Railway

Publication/Creation

1881

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1 painting : watercolour ; image 17.9 x 25.3 cm

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St Pancras Smallpox Hospital ; The hospital from the entrance of the grounds ; 20/6/81

References note

G. W. Collins, "Treatment of smallpox in tents during winter", Transactions of the Epidemiological Society of London, 1882-3, contains an account of the tented hospital

Reference

Wellcome Collection 38715i

Exhibitions note

Exhibited in "Living with Buildings" at Wellcome Collection, 4 October 2018 - 3 March 2019

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