“…6 A 1937 report on sanatorium treatment stated that it really depended on 'the willingness or capacity of the patient to continue on the routine of life he had been taught during his residence'. 7 Most general assessments were negative; for instance, of the 3000 patients discharged after sanatorium treatment under the London County Council in 1927, 2280 (76%) were dead by 1932 (p. 178). 4 It was in that context that physicians were scrambling to find treatments, although with little assistance from the MRC.…”