Cherbourg Hospital c1940

“That’s the men’s ward on the right side and the women’s ward on the left side. The other part is the old outpatients. It was pretty good. Everybody used to get their polio injections there. It was part of normal life on the community. We used to have a lot of our girls working there, helping out on the wards. They had permanent doctors back then.”
— Uncle Rory Boney Sept 2011

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