Collection of Ethel Butler
Photograph A01180 First World War, 1914-1918Ward in the Cumballa War Hospital on Malabar Hill, showing the patients, English soldiers, in bed under folded mosquito nets.
070202 Accession Number: 070202
Description
VX135755 Private William Vernon Eccles, an orderly of the 15th Field Ambulance, is standing at the far end of the 12 bed surgical ward at the Advanced Dressing Station in Koropa, Ramu Valley. Bedridden patients are kept under nets to avoid mosquito bites that result in dengue fever or malaria. The ward has a steady trickle of battle casualties but many more cases of dengue fever and malaria.
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Accession Number
070202
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Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Format: 3x4"
Support: Nitrate
Support: Nitrate
Date Made
3 Februaury 1944
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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