Ireland_Isle,_1856,_summer_sleeping_tents.jpg
| Date | 1857 | ||||
| Accession number |
British Library HMNTS 10470.d.2.
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| Notes | A tent camp inside the defensive walls of the Royal Naval Dockyard , on Ireland Island , Bermuda . Used by British Army soldiers or Royal Marines normally accommodated in barracks. Sleeping in tents was a strategy to tackle the yellow fever epidemics, which in the 19th Century often struck Bermuda during the warm, humid summers after mosquitoes carrying the disease were introduced by ships arriving from the West Indies . Soldiers, accommodated in densely-packed and not always well-ventilated barracks, suffered many deaths from the disease in contrast to the civil population. | ||||
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Image extracted from page 212 of Bermuda, a colony, a fortress, and a prison; or, Eighteen months in the Somers' Islands … , by WHITTINGHAM, Ferdinand. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr . Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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