Residential facility providing health care for patients convalescing from long-term illnesses like tuberculosis

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Boer War: the sanatorium camp used during the siege of Kimberley. Process print after Bennett, 1899.

Highlands of Brazil Sanatorium, São Paulo: exterior. Photograph.

Sanatorio Mussolini, Rome; bird's eye view. Process print.

Sanatorium de Pen-Bron, Loire-Atlantique: general plan. Process print, 1913, after a drawing, 1896.

Bournemouth: Sanatorium for consumption and diseases of the chest. Lithograph by Day & Son.

Sanatorium for consumptives, in rural surroundings. Photomechanical reproduction, 1903.

Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water, Surrey: aerial view showing the new male wing. Photolithograph, 1906.

Cardiff Sanatorium. Photograph, ca. 1895.

The German Hospital, Dalston, London. Wood engraving by C. Dammann, 1864.

Sanatorium de Pen-Bron, Loire-Atlantique: façade. Process print, 1913.

Highlands of Brazil Sanatorium, São Paulo. Handbill.

Cohn-Barnard Sanitarium, Martinsville, Indiana: patients (and staff?) Photograph by Vista Studio, 1926/1929 (?).

National Insurance Act, 1911: Administration of sanatorium benefit. Report by the Medical Officer and Tuberculosis Officer on memo. no.112./I.C.

The rack / A.E. Ellis.

Fraser-Harris, David Fraser (1867-1937)

Derbyshire County Sanitorium : opened March, 1915 / Derbyshire County Council.

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Sanatoriums

Images from the collections

Images referencing Sanatoriums

Works from the collections

National Insurance Act, 1911: Administration of sanatorium benefit. Report by the Medical Officer and Tuberculosis Officer on memo. no.112./I.C.

The rack / A.E. Ellis.

Fraser-Harris, David Fraser (1867-1937)

Cardiff Sanatorium. Photograph, ca. 1895.

Derbyshire County Sanitorium : opened March, 1915 / Derbyshire County Council.

Sanatoriums

Images from the collections

Images referencing Sanatoriums

Works from the collections

National Insurance Act, 1911: Administration of sanatorium benefit. Report by the Medical Officer and Tuberculosis Officer on memo. no.112./I.C.

The rack / A.E. Ellis.

Fraser-Harris, David Fraser (1867-1937)

Cardiff Sanatorium. Photograph, ca. 1895.

Derbyshire County Sanitorium : opened March, 1915 / Derbyshire County Council.

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