The Archive · 1920

Consumptive Soldiers

In acknowledging the receipt of £361.9.6 forwarded through Sir Everard Fraser, x.caie., H. M. Consu-General, the Hon. Sir Arthur Stanley and Lord Glenconner, chairman and hon. treasurer respectively of the Farm Colony for Soldiers and Sailors suffering from Tuberculosis, appeal for the balance of the sum required to establish the Colony at Frimley in Surrey. With £35,000 out of the £50,000 required a farm of 115 acres has been bought and once the balance is in hand work can be commenced in real earnest among those who suffer from a tubercular legacy of the war. So often can this disease be cured by open-air treatment that the certainty of good results from money subscribe ed with such an object cannot be questioned. What is wanted for so many of these cases is a change from the work which the men left to fight our battles: and again, this

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