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‘Old’ Nobles Hospital: Source D

Source D: From an article in the Isle of Man Times about Christmas celebrations in island hospitals, 31 December 1938

The Men’s Ward

The Women’s Ward

The Orthopaedic Ward

The Children’s Ward

Questions to consider:

  1. These pictures were published in 1938, 26 years after the pictures in Source A. Can you see any differences?
  2. How do the wards differ? Can you see any specific items in them?
  3. Why do you think newspapers published pictures like these at Christmas?

Source D

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