Drawing

Title:

No Signs of Improvement Among The Patients In The Republican Hospital

Object Name:

Drawing

Object ID:

1973.051.05

Creator:

Coffin, John E. (1860-1905)Artist

Date:

circa 1896

Description:

Drawing, cartoon of "No Signs of Improvement Among The Patients In The Republican Hospital", by John E. Coffin (1860-1905), c. 1896. Pen and ink on paper on paperboard. Showing hospital room; two men (above men labeled "No 1 / SULLOWAY" and "No. 2 / CLARKE") in beds; "Sulloway" has an exaggerated food and hand labeled "FIRST / TERM" and "SECOND / TERM"; tall man "Lyford" dressed as a nurse wheeling a man in possibly a wheelchair or baby carriage; man holds sign that reads, "No 1/2 / ROLLINS- / VERY SAD CASE / HOMICKNESS, / SUPERINDUCED / By CLIMATIC INFLUENCES"; fat man with doctor's case labelled "DR. JAKE / GOP SQUILLS" stands at right with saws under arm. Signed in ink, lower left edge: "JEC". Ink inscription top left to center on paperboard: "NO SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT AMONG THE PATIENTS IN THE REPUBLICAN HOSPITAL." Lower left to center paperboard is a 3-line dialog between Dr. Jake and Nurse Lyford: "DR. JAKE -- Well, How Goes it This Morning, Miss Lyford? / NURSE LYFORD -- All of Them Worse, Doctor. Including the Child. He doesn't Seem to Stand the Climate at all Well. / DR. JAKE -- I Guess It's a Coroner We Need in this Ward, not a Doctor." Unframed.

Material:

Paper

Dimensions:

H-14.3 W-18.4 inches

Credit Line:

New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase

People:

Coffin, J. Ed., Coffin, John E., Gallinger, Jacob H. (1837-1918), Lyford, James Otis (1853- ), Rollins, Frank West (1860-1915), Sulloway, Cyrus A. (1839-1917)

Subjects:

Political cartoons, Gallinger, Jacob H., Hospitals, Hospital wards, Beds, Patients, Nurses