Massage room, Changi

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART26504
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 36.8 x 50 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and blue ink and brown wash over pencil
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Showing machine made for exercising the feet of beri beri patients - on side gave a weight against a pull upwards, the other a weight against the pressure downwards. In the background is an 'exercise' bicycle. Australian General Hospital, unidentified patients using improvised equipment in hospital massage (physiotherapy) room.