Collection of black & white photographs
- Made:
- 1937-1939
Collection of black & white photographs, some mounted onto card, showing patients and staff involved in iron lung treatment for poliomyelitis at the Lord Mayor Treloar Orthopaedic Hospital, Alton, 1937-1939. Most pictures feature Eric Marchant, the hospital's first iron lung patient whose 1937 photographs inspired Lord Nuffield's gift of iron lungs to the Empire.
Details
- Category:
- Orthopaedics
- Object Number:
- 2002-380
- Materials:
- paper
- type:
- photographs
- credit:
- North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust
