'Nature's Sanatorium': the open-air treatment of tuberculosis at Nunyara, Belairf South Australia

摘要

Tuberculosis ravaged the world throughout history, yet with no cure, open-air treatment at sanatoria was all that could be offered in the early twentieth century.In 1911 visiting English botanist, rambler, and author Frederick S. Salisbury, in one of his series of newspaper articles for the Advertiser (30 May 1911), described arriving at Belair township in the Adelaide Hills as entering 'the land of sanatoria'. He was following a well-trodden path. Vivienne May, in her travelogue titled The Sunny South (1908), made mention of having passed through Belair, the 'place where doctors advisepeople to go who want a quiet spot with not too strong mountain air, wherewith to regain lost health and strength'.