Pinewood Hospital

The Pinewood Hospital was a hospital in Pinewood, near Crowthorne, England, for the treatment of people suffering from tuberculosis. It was located in a pine wood as pine trees were thought to be beneficial in the treatment of the disease. It opened as the London Open Air Sanatorium in 1901 before becoming the Pinewood Sanatorium. It treated casualties of the First and Second World Wars and after the second, began to treat general thoracic patients as tuberculosis became less prevalent. It closed in 1966.

The London Open Air Sanatorium was opened by the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in 1901 for the treatment of tuberculosis patients. They had purchased the 82-acre site in 1898, following a meeting convened at Marlborough House by the Prince of Wales . It was sited in a pine forest at Pine Wood in Berkshire as pine trees were thought to be beneficial for tuberculosis patients, and initially accommodated 64 male patients.

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