Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Mary Wicklin, aged 4 years, as a smallpox patient, a few days before her death. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Mary Wicklin, aged 4 years, as a smallpox patient, a few days before her death. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
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Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: Mary Wicklin, aged 4 years, as a smallpox patient, a few days before her death. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.

name · 1896

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Mary Wicklin 3 Dainty Street. 4 years. Vac May 18/96. Notified May 23, 96. Admitted May 23, 96. Died May 31/96. 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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