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Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Mr Worgan as a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
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Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Mr Worgan as a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

name · 1896

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Lettering: Worgan. Free drinker, bad case. Walked into hosp. with S.P. on him, recovered. Lettering on envelope consists of handwritten description of patient, and printed letters "O.H.M.S." (On Her Majesty's Service)

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