The Tuberculous Child
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or joints. It is beautifully situated in a wood on the northern side of the Rivelin Valley, about five miles from Sheffield. The administrative block and nurses' home is in the centre, and the six wards (each of twenty beds) are placed to the east and west of this, being joined to it by a covered corridor. The wards open upon wide verandas to which the beds can be wheeled easily, and on which the patients spend all their time except in very severe weather. There are thirty probationer nurses, who
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