Celebrating South Street Hospital

1910 – 1929: World War I and the Optimistic Twenties

Portrait of Colonel W. M. Gartshore
Gartshore Residence and School of Nursing
Old-style oxygen tent
Operating room in 1927
Operating room in 1927
Public Women’s Pavilion, 1929
Student nurses preparing for a “Capping Ceremony”
Aerial view of Victoria Hospital, 1928
The bell tower atop Victoria Hospital
Patient of War Memorial Children's Hospital
Miss Hilda Stuart, Superintendent of Nursing
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Laying of the Cornerstone for the Nurses' Residence
Roof top garden of the Nurses' Residence
Graduate nurse Marcele Smith
Graduate nurse Marge Walker
Graduate nurse A. Smith
First year nursing students
"On the way to graduation"
"On the way to graduation"
Laying of the Cornerstone for the Nurses' Residence
Class of 1913
Class of 1929
Roll of Honour for nurses who served overseas
Patient care room in 1927
Class of 1926
Victoria Hospital ca. 1910
Victoria Hospital's boiler room
Victoria Hospital Maternity Ward
Victoria Hospital in 1927
Jar used by researchers at the Public Institute of Health
Key to Victoria Hospital Nurses' Home
Victoria Hospital admission card for public ward patients
Admission card ca. 1910
"Tonsil" operating room in 1927
Exterior of the War Memorial Children's Hospital
War Memorial Children's Hospital
Young boy in an "invalid rolling cart" ca. 1915
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