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Hospital ward, World War I, Islington Public Library, London
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Hospital ward, World War I, Islington Public Library, London
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World War One: Islington Public Library used as a hospital ward. Photograph by Langfier Ltd., 1916. This is Ward B2, Library Extension Sept. 1916. A semicircular or circular reading room, in which, as a wartime expediency, hospital beds have been placed in a radial pattern around the periphery. In the centre, a group of seated patients, some of them with military or naval caps.

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Keywords: Hospitals, Military; Military Hospital; Military History; Hospital; Library; Libraries; Soldier; Military Medicine; World War One; Military Personnel; Hospitals
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