| Description | Platinotype print. Photographed by Howard J. Collins, House Governor of new General Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham. Interior view of queue of patients being served by staff at window at medical dispensary in old General Hospital, Summer Lane, Birmingham. A note on the back of the photograph states that the original General Hospital was founded in 1766, opened in 1799, closed in 1897, and was finally demolished in 1901. |