The Semon Convalescents' Home, at Ikley, in Wharfedale, near Bradford, Yorkshire.

  • Semon Convalescents' Home (Ilkley, England)
Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Semon Convalescents' Home, at Ikley, in Wharfedale, near Bradford, Yorkshire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    THE Sernon Commlescente' Ibome, AT ILKLEY, IN WHARFEDALE, NEAR BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. This Institution is situated in the vicinity of the celebrated Establishments known as Ben Rhydding and Ilkley Wells. It was built in 1874 by the late Charles Semon, Esq., a Bradford Merchant, and was presented by him to the Corporation of the Borough of Bradford, acting as Urban Sanitary Authority (of which Borough he was Mayor in 1865), and is intended to meet the wants of a most deserving class of persons —those who cannot afford to pay the expense of going to such places as Ben Rhydding or Ilkley Wells, hut who are not so destitute as to need free quarters in a public hospital. The gift was accompanied with the sum of £3000 to provide a fund towards working expenses. The Home and surrounding grounds cover nearly six acres; and the total cost, including furniture and fittings, was £12,000. The Regulations laid down for the management of the Institution speak for themselves, both as to its objects and the steps to be taken by persons who wish to become inmates. They are as follow: — (a) The Home is to be used exclusively for persons of slender means, whether born in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, and whether resident in Bradford or not, who are in a weak state of health, or who, having been ill, are tardily recovering, and require, for complete restoration to health, change of air, good food, rest, and kind treatment, together with medical supervision. (b) The following cases are NOT to be admissible:— Persons who are blind and helpless, and children under ten years of age. Persons who are recovering from small pox, typhus, scarlet fever, or any other infectious or contagious disease. Persons with open sores, or any form of disease requiring active treatment. Persons subject to epileptic or other fits, or who are of unsound mind. Persons suffering from cancer, confirmed pulmonary consumption, or any incurable disease. Women advanced in pregnancy. Persons in receipt of parochial relief.