Poona plague pictures
Charles Henry Benjamin Adams-Wylie (Compiler), Alexander Sclanders (Correspondent), F. B. Stewart (Photographer)
The album was most likely compiled by Dr. Charles Henry Benjamin Adams (later Adams-Wylie), a plague medical officer at the General Plague Hospital in Poona (Pune), India from 1897 until early 1898. The album records the work of the General Plague Hospital in great detail. The photographs document the daily work of the hospital and include portraits of hospital staff, views of the hospital wards and grounds, and detailed close-up studies of plague patients. Photographs taken outside the hospital compound document the measures instituted by Pune's Special Plague Committee and enforced by the British and native soldiers, such as the white-washing of homes, views of the segregation camps where residents were sent while their districts were disinfected and views of the observation camps that held households with family members known to have the plague, as well images of burial grounds and Hindu funeral pyres
Image, English, 1897