Belgrade Military Hospital

The Belgrade Military Hospital operated, in its primary configuration, from 1968 through 1992. It served the Yugoslav People's Army and, in the decade preceding its closure, a small number of patients whose presence in the hospital's records is not formally accounted for. The hospital's surviving administrative archives were transferred, in 1993, to the Museum of Yugoslav History, which mounted in 2014 a brief exhibition of recovered surgical equipment.

The compiler of this archive visited the building in 2014 on assignment for a magazine that has since ceased publication. She was given access to a particular room on the second floor, which had been used between approximately 1974 and 1983 for procedures that were not, the docent informed her, of a kind for which the hospital had been licensed. The compiler spent two hours in the room. She did not, at the time, know what she was looking at.

The photograph that arrived in the package on the morning of the ninth of October was taken in that room. It was taken on the night of the second of April, 1981.