Joan (Fletcher) Taylor and her friend at the Sanatorium, Knightwick circa 1952.

Here is a photo of two ladies who were patients at Knightwick Sanatorium - recovering from TB (Many thanks to Robin Taylor, for photos from his mothers collection) Robin's mother Joan (Fletcher) Taylor seen standing on the left with a friend.

KNIGHTWICK SANATORIUM.

The Worcestershire county council has agreed to undertake to provide sanatorium benefit for the insured under an arrangement with the Insurance Committee, and also for the non-insured. The main part of the sanatorium work will be carried on at Knightwick. This sanatorium dates from 1901, when a public meeting was held at Worcester and the Worcestershire Association for the Prevention of Consumption was formed. Mr. James Dangerfield, of Bilston, offered to the association the use of a house and grounds of 29 acres, known as The Agberrows, situated on the Ankerdine Hills, for five years at a nominal rent, with the option of purchase by the association at the end of that time. The offer was accepted, and by means of public subscriptions amounting to £4000 a sanatorium for 16 patients was built and opened in 1902. In 1906 the association purchased the house and grounds at a cost of £6000. In 1902 the county council contributed £300 towards the original building, and the King Edward VII. Worcestershire Memorial Fund produced £4750, which was handed to the trustees for the purpose of enlarging the sanatorium to form a county memorial in memory of the late King. Considerable enlargement is now proposed at an estimated cost of £11, 600, towards which is available the memorial fund and £6220 to be received from the Local Government Board, being a grant of £90 per bed in respect of 58 beds. Of the balance of L1630 the county council will pay £1100.

[Taken from an article in 'The Lancet' on home and foreign notes, page 139, 10th January, 1914]

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