View Showing Barbados Almshouse.
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2020-07-15T20:12:10Z
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This is a picture showing a view of one of Barbados’Almshouse.
There was an Almshouse in every parish, over the years, these had evolved into a kind of paupers’ hospital, with a corresponding stigma attached. In an article (WIRC, 28) it was stated that “Despite denials by medical officers, it was clear that a discriminatory two-tier class system had evolved where the only clinical care available for maternity cases among the poor was that provided by the almshouses.”
Taken from West Indies Royal Commission: Proceedings of Investigations in Barbados. Reproduced from The Barbados Advocate, Bridgetown, 1939. Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FV3ByKYUcESQpPNYDCWp/full
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Made in Germany.
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Landscape, Black & white, 4 x 6 in.
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Trees, Landscape photographs, Almshouses, Hospitals