Busy street scene outside the west wing of the former hospital at Cold Bath Fields, redundant in 1793-4 when a new smallpox hospital was erected at St Pancras. The building was used as a distillery, and for other commercial purposes, until the mid-1860s, when it was demolished for an extension to Coldbath Fields Prison.

• Keywords
  HOSPITALS, SMALLPOX, GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE, COACHES (HORSE-DRAWN), STREET LIFE, VICTORIAN PERIOD
• Geographical keyword
  CLERKENWELL, COLDBATH SQUARE
• Persons keyword
  Cold Bath Square Smallpox Hospital