Completed: TB Hospital?

[sarah e]

Could you give us the persons name and last known address, London was quite a big place, so there are many possible hospitals. One would assume he would have gone to the nearest possible one.
Regards, Sarah.

[dennford]

How far from London would you imagine, some people, as has already been mentioned went overseas.In England I do know that there was a Sanitarium on Ilkley moor because my Mother was there in the 50s.
      If you are doing a search remember that tuberculosis was also known as the consumption.
                                                      Denn

[meles]

I seem to recall the Brompton was called "The Royal Brompton" if that helps...

meles

[meles]

Just been chatting to my 86-year old Mum. "Oh, your Auntie Eileen" (who?! must explore that line...) "had TB. She went to Switzerland. The NHS was good in those days..." So maybe wealth was not the reason one went abroad necessarily.

Now, who on earth in Auntie Eileen...?

meles

[liverpool annie]

I just wanted to make a comment!

Most people with TB - didn't die of TB ..... They died of pneumonia !-
"fresh air treatment" was all they had - so beds would be wheeled out on to balconies of hospitals and covered with tarpaulins ..... rain hail and snow!
plus the dreaded "consumption"  was a terrifying disease - and it was not talked about .... So death certificates didn't usually give TB as cause of death -

Annie 

[dennford]

You'r right Annie,
      Anyone who knows Ilkley moor will attestto the foulness of the weather, and I remember well my Mum telling us about how all the windows were always left wide open irrespective of the weather - and how they often were awoke in the early hours with snow on the beds.
                                         
                                                   Denn

[Elizabeth Revel]

For any of you who like to browse in second hand book stores:

"The Plague and I" by Betty MacDonald.

I think it was published in the fifties and was an account of a stay in a TB San. told with realism and humour.

It will help you to understand some of the social implications of the disease in the early 20th century.

Beth

[loo]

Thank you for all your thoughts;  sounds like an interesting book.

I don't know about Auntie Eileen, but I don't think the NHS existed ca. 1910.

The problem is not diagnosing what he died of exactly, or how it was phrased.  At the moment I simply can't find a suitable death certificate to order.

In looking for his data to give you, I see that I never found his exact birth information either!  Oops.

I know he existed because I have a photo of him.

So, it appears that all I have is that he was born about 1890 in Kentish Town, and died at the age of about 20, living in same area, of TB. 
On the 1901 census he is 10 years old, b. Pancras.    His name is Harry William WEST.

[OzKat]

How far from London would you imagine, some people, as has already been mentioned went overseas.In England I do know that there was a Sanitarium on Ilkley moor because my Mother was there in the 50s.
      If you are doing a search remember that tuberculosis was also known as the consumption.
                                                      Denn

Another alias for TB is "phthisis" which was the cause of death for a few of my Irish rellies.

(Curiously my grandmother was terrified of TB all her life but she didn't have the faintest inkling that her own father, grandmother and aunt died as a result of it.)

Kath