Annual report of the Board of Management : 1938.

  • Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest.
Date:
1938
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Board of Management : 1938. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    visit. His Royal Highness The Duke of Windsor opened the Thomas Lampard Green Nurses’ Home on 22nd July, 1926, and also inspected the Hospital, 4. —This Hospital is situated in one of the loveliest and most sheltered spots of the Undercliff of the Isle of The Site. the climate of which is most suitable for Sgraph opposite' the treatment of the special diseases for which the title page. Hospital was established. On the west the site is protected by a row of high trees, and is somewhat under the shelter of the Undercliff in the distance ; on the north it is backed by woodland sweeping up to the Undercliff range in the background ; on the east shelter is afforded by the rising ground in front of Steephill Castle ; and on the south or sea aspect, which the sitting and sleeping rooms face, the un¬ dulating nature of the ground offers considerable protection, and yet allows charming views of the sea, which is distant about three hundred yards. The grounds cover over twenty acres of a well-drained land, sloping generally towards the sea, laid out as terraces, lawns, pleasure grounds, flower and vegetable gardens, in which, in accordance with the now generally accepted treatment, the patients are encouraged to take exercise and engage in such labour and occupation as, in the judgment of the physicians, is suited to their respective powers and conditions of health, a course which has proved most beneficial. 5. —Founded in the year 1867 by Dr. Arthur Hill Hassall, the Hospital was designed and erected on the Design separate or cottage principle. It now com- and prises eleven blocks of buildings, affording accom- Construction.modation for 81 men and 90 women, IN SEPARATE BEDROOMS. 6. —It is universally admitted that good and proper food is essential in cases of Consumption. Therefore the Dietary, greatest care is taken with the dietary of the patients, and especially with the milk, which is ]xisteurised, and is of the purest character obtainable.