Tuberculosis Collection

Highwood School, Brentwood, Essex
The administration block at Highwood (or High Wood) School, Brentwood, Essex. The school was opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 for the treatment of ophthalmia in children

Shotley Bridge General Hospital, County Durham
Aerial view of Shotley Bridge Hospital, County Durham. It was originally opened by the Gateshead Union in 1912 as a TB sanatorium (far right of picture)

Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex
Aerial view of Highwood (or High Wood) Hospital, Brentwood, Essex, used for the care of children with tuberculosis. The site was originally opened by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 for

Highwood Hospital, Brentwood, Essex
Children with tuberculosis at Highwood (or High Wood) Hospital, Brentwood, Essex. Beds were placed on the balconies to provide sun and fresh air

Virginia Poe
VIRGINIA POE wife of Edgar Allan Poe, died of tuberculosis at age 23, thus hastening her husbands insanity

Tuberculosis Don t kiss me! : Your kiss of affection - the germ of infection. Poster about tuberculosis in children and methods of transmission, showing a child wearing a bib

Union Workhouse, Bedale, North Yorkshire
The Bedale Union workhouse, erected in 1839 at South End, Bedale, North Yorkshire. Two ladies in large hats converse in the foreground

Tuberculosis Hospital, Middleton, Yorkshire
An aerial view of the Tuberculosis Hospital at Middleton, near Ilkley, in Yorkshire. Date: Date unknown

Empire Hotel, Lowestoft, Suffolk
The Empire Hotel at Lowestoft, Suffolk, opened in 1900. In 1921 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Asylums Board and reopened the following year as a hospital for tuberculosis patients

Death Certificate 1943
Death certificate issued in 1943 for John Robert Sanderson.Cause of death was tuberculosis

Tuberculosis Sufferer
Diagram to show how tuberculosis manifests itself in the body of a young girl

Tuberculosis Bacillus
Bacillus of tuberculosis, discovered by Koch, 1884

The Downs Sanatorium, Belmont, Sutton
A uniformed porter stands at the entrance to the Downs Sanatorium, at Belmont, near Sutton, Surrey. The former childrens institution was converted for use as a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1912

Tsarevich of Russia sells daisies to aid TB patients
In Livadia, Crimea, young Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904-1918) sells daisies for the benefit of tuberculosis patients. Date: circa 1912

Artificial light and TB patients
Doctors using artificial sunshine to help patients suffering from tuberculosis. This scene is at the Robroyston hospital in Glasgow. Date: 1925

Joan Keats
A portrait profile sketch of English romantic poet, John Keats, who died of tuberculosis at the mere age of 25. Date: circa 1922

Papworth Colony - Model Cottages
Model cottages at the Papworth Tuberculosis Colony, established in 1918 as the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony, following a campaign led by Elsbeth Dimsdale. Date: Date unknown

Papworth Colony - Hospital Ward
A hospital ward at the Papworth Tuberculosis Colony, established in 1918 as the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony, following a campaign led by Elsbeth Dimsdale. Date: Date unknown

Papworth Colony - Open Air Chalets
Open air chalets at the Papworth Tuberculosis Colony, established in 1918 as the Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony, following a campaign led by Elsbeth Dimsdale. Date: Date unknown

A nurse carrying out Balneotherapy - Millfield Home
A nurse carrying out Balneotherapy - spraying with sea water - at the the Millfield Home for children with tuberculosis at Rustington, near Littlehampton, Sussex

FRANCISQUE CROTTE / 1901
Francisque Crotte demonstrates his machine for curing tuberculosis Date: 1901

TUBERCULOSIS CLINIC
Anti-tuberculosis dispensary at Nantes : street view, section of the interior, and plans of the lower and upper floors Date: 1906

Switzerland - High Altitude Clinic of Dr Rollier at Le Sepey
Switzerland - The Hazels - A High Altitude Clinic of Dr. Auguste Rollier (The Sun Doctor) at Le Sepey, Cergnat - specialising in Sunlight Cure for children with TB and respiratory conditions (see)

A tuberculosis patient being given a direct blood transfusion from a goat, at Dr Simon Bernheims clinic. France, ca. 1891. Engraving

Heswall Sanatorium, Cheshire
Heswall Sanatorium or Childrens Hospital, located on the Wirral peninsula, then part of Cheshire. It was established in 1902 by Liverpool Parish, West Derby Union

Pontsarn Sanatorium, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales
Pontsarn Sanatorium, in the parish of Vaynor, near Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales. The sanatorium was established in 1913 by the Merthyr Tydfil Union for the treatment of tuberculosis patients

Royal Victoria Hospital Farm Colony, Polton, Scotland
Patients plough the land and plant seed potatoes at the Farm Colony (founded in 1910) at The Royal Victoria Hospital, founded in 1894

Robert Koch (1843-1910). Engraving. Colored
Robert Koch (1843-1910). German physician. Nobel Prize, 1905. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1890. Colored

Virchow (Spy)
RUDOLF VIRCHOW German pathologist associated with tuberculosis, rickets etc. : also an active politician who opposed Bismarcks policies Date: 1813 - 1902

Sealyham House, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
View of Sealyham House or Mansion, a Georgian style country house near Little Newcastle, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Princess Marys Hospital, Margate, Kent
Entrance to the Princess Marys Hospital, Wilderness Road, Margate, Kent. The site, originally known as Eastcliff House, was acquired in 1898 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a seaside hospital

Pinewood Sanatorium, Wokingham, Berkshire
Aerial view of the Pinewood Sanatorium at Bagshot Sands, near Wokingham, Berkshire, which was originally opened in 1898 as the London Open Air Sanatorium by the National Association for

Colindale Hospital, Hendon, North London
Aerial view of Colindale Hospital, Hendon, North London. The hospital was originally the Central London District Sick Asylum

St Lukes Hospital, Lowestoft, Suffolk
St Lukes Hospital at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Formerly the Empire Hotel, the building was acquired in 1921 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board

Dental Room, Tuberculosis Institute, Durham St, Belfast - an interior view of a dental practice, including Dental chair and basin. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast)

KOCH, Robert (Clausthal, near Hanover, 1843-Baden-Baden, 1910). German doctor. In 1882 discovered the bacillus of tuberculosis, known as Kochs bacillus and tuberculin. Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1905

Chelsea Consumption Hospital - Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest (Chelsea). Date: 1846

TB Band, England. Tuberculosis Patients Date: 1920s

Two men outside Hotel Grey D Albion, Cannes, which is still in business today. On the right is Ernest Battersby, the photographer

Two men on Cannes seafront
Two men on the seafront at Cannes. On the right is Ernest Battersby, the photographer, who spent time in Southern France as he suffered from tuberculosis towards the end of his life

KOCH, Robert (1843-1910). German physician, discoverer of the tuberculin. Nobel Prize in 1905. Engraving

Queen Mary at Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony
Queen Mary was indefatigable in visits she paid to hospitals and convalescent homes during World War One. Photographed here at Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony at Papworth. During WWI

Philip Rose
Sir Philip Rose, 1st Baronet (1816 1883) was the son of William Rose, an Assistant Surgeon in the British Indian Army. Caption: Lord Beaconsfields friend. Date: 1881

Dagshai Hill Bazar - India
Dagshai Hill Bazar, India - Built by the British as a sanatorium for TB patients in Himachal Pradesh State, Solan District

Heswall Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Liverpool
Heswall Sanatorium, jointly established in 1902 by Liverpool Parish, West Derby Union, and Toxteth Park Township for the treatment of children with phthisis - pulmonary tuberculosis

Il faut vaincre la tuberculose comme le plus malfaisant des reptiles. A hand squeezing the throat of a snake. The snake is dripping venom. Date 1918

Good grades and good health go together City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium :PGet your test now. City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium poster promoting tuberculosis testing

Take part in Americas crusade against tuberculosis Cook County Public Health Unit. Poster showing staff with wreath design. Date 1940

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