1791 - Royal Seabathing Hospital, Margate, UK
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N 51° 23.169 E 001° 21.982
31U E 386326 N 5694034
Hospital originally founded for the treatment of Scrofula by means of sea bathing.
Waymark Code: WMEJPG
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/05/2012
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The Royal Seabathing Hospital, or to give it its full name "The Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary for the scrofulous poor of all England" was founded in 1791, and at the time of its foundation was "the only hospital in the Kingdom
exclusively devoted to the treatment of Scrofula. Pure sea air and sea bathing, so necessary to patients suffering from this disease, are therein obtained") [1] Scrofula is a tuberculous infection of the lymph nodes in the neck.
The building closed as a hospital in 1995
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Margate Civic Society Newsletter winter 2006. The text above is an extract from ‘Keble’s Illustrated Penny Guide to Margate and the Isle of Thanet’ (1887)
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