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About West Park
History: Historical Photo Library
The Early Years - 1904 to 1920
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A
typical in-patient room in the men's pavillion, circa
1905. |
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Original
buildings of The Toronto Free Hospital
for the Consumptive Poor,
circa 1906 |
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TB
patients play a game of croquet at the hospital, circa
1908. |
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TB
patients take the cure in mid-winter - a common form
a treatment prior to the development of antibiotics.
Exposure to outdoors was expected to replenish affected
lungs with fresh air, thereby limiting the spread of
TB germs and encouraging lungs to heal naturally. |
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Early
TB patients dine in the communal dining area of the hospital,
circa 1911. |
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Little
patients of the Queen Mary Hospital for Tuberculous Children,
circa 1913. |
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