There are very few things sadder than spending Christmas in hospital... making it all the more touching when people make an effort to make it as Christmassy as possible, as nurses and others have done across the decades.
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| Nationaal Archief |
Christmas at a sanatorium [hospital for tuberculosis patients, as opposed to sanitarium, for mentally ill patients], the Netherlands, 1950. Source
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| Nationaal Archief |
Christmas in a military hospital, Germany, World War One. Source
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| State Library of New South Wales |
Royal Prince Albert Hospital Christmas, Australia, 1944. Source
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| © IWM (A 6486) |
Nurse feeding patient Christmas pudding at a naval hospital in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 1941. Source
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| Australian War Memorial |
Christmas at a hospital in Gaza, 1941. Source
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| US National Archives |
Christmas at the Rosebud Indian Hospital, South Dakota, 1945. Source
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| State Library of New South Wales |
Christmas party at the Royal Prince Albert Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, 1940. Source
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| State Library of New South Wales |
Santa, nurses, and a camel at the Royal South Sydney Hospital, Australia, 1936. Source
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| National Archives of Norway |
Christmas at the Norwegian Hospital in London, WW2. Source
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| State Library of New South Wales |
And, a kiss between Santa and a nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred hospital, Sydney, 1944. Source
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