Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: NA16-071. 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). According to Sihn Kyu-hwan: ‘In September 1903, the colonial authorities approved the plan for the Bacteriological Institute to unify disease control work. By early 1904, [bacteriologist William] Hunter narrowly acquired new public mortuary buildings at Hill Road. In addition to the main autopsy room, there was a room for examination of rats for plague surveillance and smaller rooms for research’ (K.H. Sihn, ‘Reorganizing Hospital Space: The 1894 Plague Epidemic in Hong Kong and the Germ Theory’, 'Korean Journal of Medical History' [2017], available at: https://www.medhist.or.kr/journal/Figure.php?xn=kjmh-26-1-59.xml). See NA16-072.

Caption in album or on mount

THE PUBLIC MORTUARY

Location

Hong Kong

Estimated Date

1904-1910

Tags

• building
• stone
• health
• death
• rubble
• mortuary
• vegetation
• TNA
• National Archives
• morgue
• plague

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

The National Archives, London

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