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Crown princess Victoria's coastal sanatorium
This "Victoria" is not the present crown princess of Sweden but the late king Gustav V's wife (1862-1930). She donated some money and was the patroness of this sanatorium.
Coastal sanatoriums were intended for patients suffering from the special form of tuberculosis that attac the lymphatic system of young persons, not the lungs.
This sanatorium was founded in 1903 and lies on the western coast of Scania in southernmost Sweden.
The hospital grew during the years. The house on the picture below, the laundry, was built in 1925. To the left of the house, under the little green hill, lies the mortuary.
In the 1940's the patients grew helthier and fewer were fallen ill thanks to the newly discovered antibiotics. The last TBC-patient was discharged in 1955. Polio was the "new" disease to
follow and later multi-handicapped children came to the hospital. After 1975 it was a regular nursing home until 1986. Thereafter youth hostel and refugee asylum.
Now it is a home for elderly people.
The visit was made in May 2009 and we could get into the laundry house only. It has laundry facilities on the ground floor and rooms for the staff on the upper floors.
The house was torn down in 2010.
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