Ockley, The Sanatorium 1914
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The assembled staff pose outside a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients from London set up just outside the village of Ockley. The female staff lived inside the house in the background, Southfield, while the patients were accommodated in a collection of eight wooden huts to the left. When these were eventually dismantled and removed, the building contractors discovered considerable numbers of broken clay pipes near the surface. In spite of their life-threatening illness, many patients were clearly unable or unwilling to abandon their devotion to tobacco. The rudimentary huts, with half-doors to them, ensured that the occupants enjoyed plenty of fresh air as part of their treatment. The rigorous approach does not appear to have been particularly successful; many of those who came here now lie buried in graves at St John's cemetery in the village.
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