The London Hospital, Whitechapel: receiving day for outpatients. Process print after W. W. Russell.

[London]

1 print : process print ; image 33.1 x 49.5 cm

Receiving day at the London Hospital ; In the waiting room. depressing and rather murky-looking in spite of its large area of window glass and its ostentatious air of being well scrubbed every morning, the patients sit awaiting their turn to see the surgeon. They are of many ages and of one class: but the characteristic which is most strikingly common to all is their patience and their quietitude ; W. W. Russell

Wellcome Collection 39497i