Stavanger’s first ambulance

Stavanger’s first ambulance
The ‘Kombinerede Indretning’ served as the town’s hospital, poorhouse, forced workhouse and mental asylum. ‘The green stretcher’ represents the town's first ambulance service. Two convicts from the prison act as stretcher bearers who fetch the sick and dead and carry them to the institution. The stretcher is a practical means of transporting bodies through the narrow alleys between Stavanger's timber buildings. At the same time, this mode of transport is living testament to the shameful conditions that characterise the way in which the institution is being run.