. British sanatoria for the open-air treatment of tuberculosis : with numerous illustrations ; [reprinted with additions and alterations from the "West London Medical Journal."] . to the bedroom occupied, the only extrasbeing personal laundry and alcoholic drinks. For further particulars application should be made to1, Stanhope Gardens, Bournemouth. COTSWOLD SANATORIUM.(Dr. Pruen and Mr. C. Braine Hartnell.) This Sanatorium, which takes in all forms of tuberculosisand not that of the lungs only, is situated on the CotswoldHills, near Cheltenham, at an elevation of 800 feet. It hasa southerly a
. British sanatoria for the open-air treatment of tuberculosis : with numerous illustrations ; [reprinted with additions and alterations from the "West London Medical Journal."] . to the bedroom occupied, the only extrasbeing personal laundry and alcoholic drinks. For further particulars application should be made to1, Stanhope Gardens, Bournemouth. COTSWOLD SANATORIUM.(Dr. Pruen and Mr. C. Braine Hartnell.) This Sanatorium, which takes in all forms of tuberculosisand not that of the lungs only, is situated on the CotswoldHills, near Cheltenham, at an elevation of 800 feet. It hasa southerly aspect, overlooking the Stroud Valley. Frombehind the grounds a view of the whole Severn Valley isobtained, stretching from the Shropshire Hills in the northto the Bristol Channel in the south-west. The entire rangeof the Malvern Hills is seen in the north-west, with theWelsh Hills beyond them. The soil is Oolitic Limestone,from 150 to 300 feet thick. The Sanatorium stands in its own private grounds, nearly70 acres in extent, well wooded with fir and beech. Thegrounds stand in the centre of a tract of common land about1,000 acres in extent, and similarly wooded. Protection. I against cold winds is afforded by the trees, as well as bythe rise of the ground—50 feet in height—behind the Sana-torium to the north and east. A sanitary farm of 350 acres has just been started inconnection with the Sanatorium for the purpose of supplyingit with milk, cream and butter from cows which have beentested for tuberculosis and found free from that disease. The buildings consist of residential blocks for patients, anadministrative block, servants block, and engine-house of the buildings are on one floor, each residential blockbeing of stone or of wood on a stone foundation, with five orsix bed rooms for patients. In front of each block is a glass-covered verandah, 10ft. wide, and to the sides and back anarrower one of the same kind. The ends of these veran-dahs are protected by scr
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