Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Deelfontein, South Africa: the "Eastern Counties" ward with patients in bed. Photograph by Sherborn.

Four beds, with a patient lying on each, and above each bed the name of the sponsor: "Eastern Counties Chelmsford bed", "Eastern Counties Newmarket Town bed", "Eastern Counties Isle of Ely", "Eastern Counties Babraham bed". Also attached to the wall behind the beds are (apparently) blotting paper holders containing foolscap sheets of paper (for medical notes?), baskets for the patients' clothes, pictures (a print of a jockey, apparently; a print of a Victorian painting of a Georgian street scene), and a long shelf for books, bottles etc.

Presumed to be the Eastern Counties Ward in the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, Deelfontein, South Africa, which had an Eastern Counties Ward with beds given or equipped by donations from named East Anglian towns (Georgiana Countess Howe, The Imperial Yeomanry hospitals in South Africa, 1900-1902, London 1902, vol 1, p. 19)

Newmarket : Sherborn, [1900?]

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 10.2 x 14.2 cm

Sherborn ; Newmarket

Wellcome Collection 527800i