Nostalgia: Furness patients faced months of cold, fresh air to cure TB

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    The Mail, 15th May 2018. ".....Patients from Millom or Furness could be sent to isolated places in the Lake District, to High Carley, near Urswick, or to Meathop, near Grange. The Meathop Sanitorium was one of the first in the country to offer the fresh air treatment which lasted for several months and could take years to have a significant effect. In 1891 the Westmorland Consumption Sanatorium was opened as a convalescent home....."
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    Link: https://www.nwemail.co.uk/features/16424982.nostalgia-furness-patients-faced-months-cold-fresh-air-cure-tb/
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