Wellcome Collection
Gloucester smallpox epidemic, 1896: George Allen, a smallpox patient. Photograph by H.C.F., 1896.
name · 1896
Lettering: Geo. Allen (Tredworth) getting better. Not vac. Aged 56. Admitted to Hosp.l 5-4-96. Discharged from [Hosp.l] 11-5-96. Lettering on envelope consists of: handwritten description of patient, written in 1896, subsequently revised and extended in 1901; printed letters "O.H.M.S." (On Her Majesty's Service); and, in some cases, printed insignia of the "1st Glo'stershire Artillery Vol[untee]rs. Fidus et audax"
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