091322 140 year history - A4 landscape v1 digital - Flipbook - Page 36
1897
Patient Transfer
When a person was admitted to the hospital,
they were taken to either a men’s or a women’s
pavilion. In this case the patient (or perhaps a
person posing as a patient for the sake of the
photograph) is being transported in a wheeled
litter along the top level of a walkway to a
second-floor ward. The porter or trolley-boy,
as they were called, looks on. Non-medical
employees of the hospital were numerous
and included porters, ward and pathology
attendants, clerical staff, cooks, laundresses,
maids, seamstresses and tradesmen.
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