Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: NA16-035. Image from an album in The National Archives referenced as ‘HONG KONG 3. Views of Hong Kong from the 1860s to the 1920s' (CO 1069-446). The Women's Hospital in this photograph was known as the Lock Hospital until 1893, when it was renamed The Women's Hospital (Sheilah E. Hamilton, 'Watching over Hong Kong: Private Policing 1841-1941', p. 76). The hospital had been established in the 1850s to treat, amongst others, sex workers with venereal diseases. See NA16-032, NA16-033 and NA16-034.

Caption in album or on mount

Women's Hospital & Govt. Civil Hospital facing Queen's Road.

Caption on photograph

4

Location

Hong Kong

Estimated Date

1890s

Tags

• building
• architecture
• plant
• tree
• road
• woman
• medicine
• health
• lamp
• roof
• hospital
• pot
• lamp post
• tile
• TNA
• National Archives

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

The National Archives, London

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