To the long rows of cots up and down     each side I return,
To each and all one after another I
    draw near, not one do I miss,
An attendant follows holding a tray,
    he carries a refuse pail,
Soon to be fill’d with clotted rags and     blood, emptied, and fill’d again.

(The Wound-Dresser 444)
Image ID: LC-DIG-cwpb-00486
Washington, D.C. Patients in ward of Harewood Hospital; mosquito nets over beds.