2-714-817 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Consumption Hospital, Brompton', c1876. 19th century consumptive patients were turned away from hospitals as there was no known cure. The Royal Brompton Hospital was founded in 1840s by Philip Rose, as a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]