The exhibition has been organised by a former patient at the Adelina Patti Hospital in the Swansea Valley, better known as Craig-y-nos Castle, it housed TB patients from 1922-59.
Craig-y-nos Castle was the estate of the world-renowned opera singer Adelina Patti until her death in 1919.
Two years later, it was bought by an organisation founded to combat TB in Wales and was reconstructed as a sanatorium before admitting its first patients in August 1922.
The exhibition is part of an oral history project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Sleeping Giant Foundation charity.
"It will be the first ever collective account by patients and staff of life inside a tuberculosis sanatorium and is therefore a unique heritage project."
"The time period, from the 1920s to the 1950s, is also crucial because of the tremendous activity by medical professionals and other groups to understand the nature of tuberculosis.
"The real treatment breakthrough came in 1947 when the first effective medicine, an antibiotic called streptomycin, became available in Britain. The children of Craig-y-nos were among the first to receive this new 'wonder' drug. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/6984547.stm
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As the writer and former patient researching the history of the Adelina Patti hospital, I was delighted to come across your web-site.
One of the most interesting things to emerge is tht so many ex patient never talked ahbout their experiences and we are literally tapping into 50 years of suppressed grief! this was not what I expected whne I begna this reseach a year ago.
Ann Shaw
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