Pinewood Hospital

Pinewood Hospital
London Open Air Sanatorium, c.1907
Pinewood Hospital is located in Berkshire
Pinewood Hospital
Shown in Berkshire
Geography
LocationPinewood, England
Coordinates51°23′07″N 0°47′45″W / 51.3854°N 0.7958°W / 51.3854; -0.7958
Organisation
TypeSpecialist
Services
SpecialityTuberculosis
History
Opened1901
Closed1966
Links
ListsHospitals in England
The sanatorium while under construction, c. 1901[1]
Plan of the sanatorium[1]
London Open Air Sanatorium, west wing, 1910

The Pinewood Hospital was a hospital in Pinewood, near Crowthorne, England, for the treatment of people suffering from tuberculosis. It was located in a pine wood as pine trees were thought to be beneficial in the treatment of the disease. It opened as the London Open Air Sanatorium in 1901 before becoming the Pinewood Sanatorium. It treated casualties of the First and Second World Wars and after the second, began to treat general thoracic patients as tuberculosis became less prevalent. It closed in 1966.

  1. ^ a b "The London Open-Air Sanatorium", British Medical Journal, 20 July 1901, pp. 153–154.