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Building playpen at Princess Margaret Hospital
"FOR THE CHILDREN: A Danish volunteer worker and Girl Guides officers discussing how to go about building a children's play pen at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Morant Bay. Members of the group are from left, Doreen Clemetson, Mrs. Guy Wright,…
Princess Margaret Hospital in Morant Bay
"Ambulance 155 attached to the Princess Margaret Hospital in Morant Bay being towed away from Morant Bay to kingston by the Jones Wrecking Service of Lyndhurst Road in Kingston. This leaves the Princess Margaret Hospital and the Cedar Valley Clinic…
Princess Margaret Hospital poison victim
"Poison Victim: Wilma Thomas, 27, relates to Health Minister Dr. Ken Baugh, at Princess Margaret Hospital how her four-year-old daughter Gaye Ann Holness died after eating rice and peas and chicken for Sunday dinner last week in St. Thomas. Nine…
Accident in front of JAMINTEL earth station in St. Thomas
"Nicholas Jones of Kingston was pulled from this wrecked car and rushed to the Princess Margaret Hospital where he is now a patient suffering from multiple fractures and abrasions.
The accident occurred shortly after 3pm on Tuesday in front of…
The accident occurred shortly after 3pm on Tuesday in front of…
Duckenfield Sugar Company Works Yard residents
"Two Works Yard housewives trying to wash out the mud and excrement from their clothes."
Duckenfield Sugar Company Works Yard residents
"Can wi sponge dry? Duckenfield Sugar Company works yard residents trying to dry their bedding which was soaked by last week's flood waters when eight rivers and some 41 supporting gullies were in spate, sending up to eleven feet of water through…
Duckenfield Sugar Company Works Yard residents
"A Banana Board representative and Crop Culture Jamaica's Duckenfield air-strip caretaker looking at the damage done by last week's flash-flood to the Banana Board's spray-plane loading point in East St. Thomas."
Flood victims
"The homeless couple: Charlton Mitchell, 30, and his common-law-wife Yvonne Grant, 19, with their 20-month-old son, Cleveland. They lost their two-apartment timber house during the September 18 downpour when the raging Pen Gully overflowed its banks…
Stagnant water in Brown's Gully, Morant Bay
"Health hazard - Brown's Gully in Morant Bay has stagnant water and heavy morass all year round except when there's a down-pour of rain to flush the gully. It is one of the many breeding grounds for mosquitoes and ring-worms. In addition, residents…
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The Post Office, Dry Harbour, Jamaica
Postcard of the Dry Harbour Post Office, by renowned 19th century artist and illustrator, Joseph Holland Tringham.