The Hospital Ship

 

I can't be certain, but my best guess is that this is a military hospital ship.  But is the man on the right a doctor or a patient?  

Malaria Girls 2

The woman in the top photo seems to be wearing a somewhat different outfit than the rest of the malaria girls.  Is she a research subject?  The bottom picture is a bit frustrating.  I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a vertical.  I keep thinking she's looking into a microscope.  But what's really maddening is the shoulder patch.  If it wasn't out of focus I'd know who these women were.

Dated "NOV 60"

The Army Hospital Album 14

My eyes hurt!  I was out riding my bicycle, got an eyeful of dust, and it took a couple of days for my eyes to flush out all that grit.  It's a good thing I wasn't in the army hospital.  All that second hand smoke would have made things worse.  Just think, way back in the 1950s, doctors and nurses would offer a smoke to a patient to make them feel better.  How things change.

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The Army Hospital Album 13

Finally, an actual medical procedure.  In picture number four, some blood is being taken.  But what about the first picture?  Am I wrong?  Is that guy making a rug?  And, you'll have to take my word for it.  I needed my best magnifying glass to make it out.  The guy in the second photo is reading a story called The Coffee Cup Showdown.

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The Army Hospital Album 11

I'll be finishing out the year with  more images from The Army Hospital Collection.  We've got  more dates with this lot.  The scrabble players and the two nurses, "MAY 55"  I keep wondering if being in a military hospital is an open ended thing.  If a soldier's enlistment is over, but he's still considered too ill for service, what happens?  Continued enlistment until recovery? Release to a VA facility?  Just plain release, left to their own devices?  And of course, what would have happened in 1955, compared to today?

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The Army Hospital Album 2

I had to get through a couple of more pictures to get to the first of the hospital shots.  This will be it for awhile.  Click on army hospital collection in labels to bring up the other posts.  Actually, at this point all you've got to do is navigate back one, but at some time in the future clicking will be necessary.