Category Archives: sanatoria

Huntin’ Shootin’ and Fishin’ at an upper-crust, prefab sanatorium

Posted on June 13, 2015 by

In the third edition of Rufenacht Walters’ Sanatoria for Consumptives published in 1905 is an account of Alderney Manor Sanatorium and the photograph above of the patients’ accommodation. This type of simple prefabricated timber and corrugated iron structure were commonly used for small … Continue reading →

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Pine Trees

Posted on June 6, 2015 by

The subject of pine trees formed a digression in the second issue of the Hospitals Investigator, and it put me in mind of earlier research that I had done in Scotland where Sanatoria were set amongst pines so that the patients … Continue reading →

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