Belgrave Crescent, Torquay (1871)

Rock & Company
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Devon West Country Studies sB/TOR 7/1871/ROC
Devon North Devon Record Office SC3073
Illustration Reference
SC3073
Location
CD 47 DVD 7
Publication Details
Date
1871
Publisher
Scope and Content
The book of fair Devon. Exeter: United Devon Association, 1899-1900. p. 65.Although Torquay is so beautiful, it does not suit everyone, or every ailment. The following remarks have been written in all fairness, and may serve as a guide. All patients requiring rest and quiet in a mild and soothing climate improve greatly. Delicate children outgrow their weakness, especially when due to tubercular mischief. Those curses of old age, the winter cough and chronic bronchitis, are reduced to a minimum, and there can be no doubt that hundreds of elderly people manage to live on for years in Torquay whose days seemed only too plainly numbered when in their own homes in the North. In fact, Torquay is preservative to old age. In respect of consumption, the class of cases which do best are those sent here in the earliest stages. Next in order as likely to derive benefit are those in the later stages, provided the mischief is not active. What is called "galloping consumption" is no more likely to do well here than elsewhere, and it is only cruelty to bring such cases from their home surroundings "because we wanted him to have a last chance." Cases of irritable nervous affections, with deficient sleeping power, generally do well. Over worked brains derive great benefit from a stay here, provided rest, quiet, and regularity of diet are secured. Acute rheumatism is very rare, and many forms of chronic rheumatism get on well. Bright's disease is not a common ailment, calculous affections are extremely rare, and those who live according to the requirements of the climate are seldom troubled with liver. Those, on the other hand, who eat lots of cream and other rich things, and drink as if they were in some cold and bracing climate, of course soon come to grief, and thus learn by experience that in Rome they should do as the Romans do. If nature has been bountiful to Torbay, man has not been niggardly. Everything that can be suggested has been employed to make the place perfect as a health resort.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Format
Steel l.engr vign
Dimensions
62x90mm
Series
S226 - 6331
Note
Rock & Co. ; no. 6331. 1 Feb 1871
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General views
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Dates
1871