Records of Berks and Bucks Joint Sanatorium Committee

1 Minutes

C/CL/G1/105/2, 5-6 BCC correspondence files on the sanatorium, 1913-1949

C/CL/C5/2/1-6 Berkshire County Council copy of minutes, 1914-1945

C/CL/C5/2A/1 Minutes of Buildings and Planning Sub-committee, 1947

Records in other collections

Oxfordshire History Centre, O111/A/1 Annual report, 1911/2

D/EWK/B2/4/39/1 Plans, c.1919

Oxfordshire History Centre, RDC XVII/viii/21,28, 30,31,35,45,47,48 Plans 1908-1923

C/CL/G1/105/4 Constitution and related papers, 1914-1941

C/CL/G1/120/25 Papers relating to superannuation scheme, 1937-1938

Peppard Sanatorium, in Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire, treated tuberculosis patients.

In 1898 Dr Esther Colebrook (later Carling) had begun open air treatment of tuberculosis patients in a farmhouse near Peppard. Kingswood Farmhouse was purchased in 1902 and Maitland House erected nearby; it was known as Maitland Sanatorium by 1911 and until c.1915. In 1914 Dr Carling sold the sanatorium to Berkshire and Buckinghamshire County Councils. It occupied a number of different houses called Maitland, Kingwood and Kindercot (a residential open-air school for child patients).

The Berks & Bucks Joint Sanatorium Committee (comprised of representatives from Berkshire and Buckinghamshire County Councils) took over running of the sanatorium, now the Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Joint Sanatorium in June 1914. Dr Carling remained the Resident Medical Officer and Mr H F Carling [her husband?] was employed as Resident Superintendent.

An associated School of Handicrafts, started in 1912, provided occupational therapy for patients and also future paid employment.

Additional temporary buildings were transported from the Canadian Red Cross Hospitals [for wounded soldiers during the First World War] at Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and elsewhere in 1919. The main hospital was extended in 1919-1920.

It became part of the National Health Service in 1948. A dedicated tuberculosis hospital for many years, it later dealt with general chest patients. Under the NHS it was known as the Peppard Sanatorium (1948-c.1955) and the Peppard Chest Hospital (1955-c.1969). It closed in c.1982.