A staircase at Pool Park DAILY POST SAYS Page 8 The crumbling state of Pool Park former mental hospital and
convalescent home in Clawddnewydd, near Ruthin: plans are in the pipeline to bring the building back to life as a 38-bedroom nursing home, with more than 60 apartments and homes in the grounds
Four weeks in a
convalescent home, the Werk vowed, enabled mothers to "handle even more difficult challenges and gain the courage to improve the family situation of their husbands and children on their own." [46] Husbands who might have been reluctant to support their wives' month-long cures had to concede that chronic illnesses would only harm their own interests.
Doff, director of Special Health Services for the Florida Board of Health, described in a March 1962 Nursing Homes article the "community attitude" that served as the foundation for the "so-called
convalescent home of the 1920s and 1930s": "Convalescence had not yet interested the rank and file of the medical and allied professions."' According to Dr.
The move has rocked the Northern Police
Convalescent Home where she worked for almost two years.
The Victorians initiated a massive hospital and
convalescent home building programme often supported by wealthy benefactors.
Postcard featuring a photograph of The Rest
Convalescent Home, Southerndown.
Surely the answer would be for each Health Authority to build a
convalescent home. The 'bed-blockers' could be put there and it could be run like a hotel, with just a few trained staff and care assistants.
AFORMER children's
convalescent home in the Midlands is being investigated as part of the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal.
Mike served his country as a member of the National Guard for 22 years and worked many years at the former Millbury Nursing and
Convalescent Home and the Lydia Taft House in Uxbridge.
AROUND 1950, I was sent to a
convalescent home in or near Market Bosworth.
ANSWERS: 1 The Vicarage; 2 North or Low Lackenby; 3 Prisoner of war camp; 4 Stockton Castle; 5 The Transporter; 6 Coatham
Convalescent Home; 7 100,000; 8 South Bank; 9 A Green Caribbean Cockroach; 10 Reindeer.
It was used as a
convalescent home for injured US servicemen in World War Two, before being purchased by Warwickshire County Council in 1947.