Posts tagged Convalescent
Narryna the Convalescent Hostel 1946-53

Our first blog entry is topical. Narryna’s path to museum owed much to a world health pandemic. Tuberculosis was a scourge of society from medieval times, which health officials sought to eradicate in post WWII Tasmania.

Narryna was purchased by the Tasmanian Government in 1946 to allow patients to recuperate after treatment for the lung disease, tuberculosis. Click on the image above to learn more…

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