2-634-937 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Receiving an accident case at Poplar Hospital, London, c1903 (1903).The Poplar Hospital for Accidents opened in 1858 on East India Road under the patronage of the Quaker banker and philanthropist Samuel Gurney. It was later expanded into a general hospital but was demolished in 1982. From Living London, Vol. II, by George R. Sims. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1903]