Black and white lantern slide picturing a men's ward in the London Missionary Society hospital in Hankow (Hankou). Patients sit up in or on their beds whilst a young man stands in the centre of the ward. This man wears an armband, and may be hospital staff. Beds are formed of wooden planks, with a bed roll and bedstead, and a table with long benches can be seen in the foreground of the picture. A hospital was first started in Hankou by Griffith John of the London Missionary Society as an addition to existing mission buildings in 1866. A women only hospital, the Margaret Memorial Hospital, was opened in 1889 and named after Mrs. Margaret John, the deceased wife of Griffith John. This slide comes from a collection held by the Church of Scotland and generated by the medical missionary Charles Somerville, who worked for the London Missionary Society in Hankou from 1904 to 1914.
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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