Queen Alexandra Sanatorium Coaster
Credit LineGift of Dr. J. Malcolm Smith, London, Ontario, 1999.
Object number1999.003.194
Label TextThis coaster comes from the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium, which opened in 1910 to treat people suffering from tuberculosis. During and after the First World War (1914-1918), the sanatorium received soldiers who returned from overseas with the disease. They had contracted it in the terrible conditions they had endured at the front.
NameCoaster
After 1910
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