Two smallpox hospital ships moored off Deptford - vaccinations eventually rid the world completely of this terrible disease


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Two smallpox hospital ships moored off Deptford - vaccinations eventually rid the world completely of this terrible disease.

Acquired in 1881, the ships were later moved down river to Long Reach, before being phased out in 1904

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