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Domestic Servants Insurance Act - Comic PostcardDomestic Servants Insurance Act " I don t care how often I get hurt now, I am insured." A bandgaged housemaid shows her delight at the terms of the Domestic Servants Insurance Act
Visiting Time 1893Visiting time on the childrens ward; a father sits by his daughters bed
French Sick VisitorsTwo fashionably dressed ladies call on a sick woman in an attic, who is already being cared for by a sister of charity
CALANDER SAYS NOThe CALANDER (a kind of lark) knows if sick people will recover; held over the sickbed, if it turns towards the patient s/he will recover, if not (as here) s/he won t
Christmas scene at the Evelina Childrens HospitalChristmas comes but once a year -- a scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital, founded in Southwark, London, in 1869. A sick little girl is visited by her mother and younger sister
Wyclif / Thomas / BourneJOHN WYCLIF on his sickbed at Oxford in 1378, the religious reformer is assailed by friars who are not of his way of thinking Date: 1324 - 1384
Victoria / Reading / 1870SQueen Victoria reading at the bedside of an old cottager at Balmoral
Roux / Cure for Croup / 1894Dr. Roux administering his cure for croup, a throat disease which affects children
Sick Child & Girl NurseCLOGS A young girl acting as nurse has removed her clogs and sits on the edge of the sickbed while she offers sustenance to an ill sibling
Mother by Sick Sons BedI have sinned, she repeated several times, by her sons bedside
Fashion Visits PoorTwo ladies bountiful, in fashionable garb call on a have-not bearing gifts which include cast-off clothing for the sick womans daughter
Nuns Dressing a WoundA saintly nun pours soothing ointment / oil onto the bandages of the bed-ridden man who swoons with the pain. Another nun brings in some hot coffee or is it more unctions?
Pros & Cons of SickbedThe pleasure of lying in bed all day while convalescing is somewhat outweighed by inconvenience of dropping crumbs in the bed. Two little girls ruminate
Sickbed Scene (1470)An elderly man in his sickbed being attended to by two women