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Nurses drawing room, Miners Rehabilitation Centre, Royal Hospital Woofindin Annexe, Woofindin Hall, Whiteley Woods

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Title:	Nurses drawing room, Miners Rehabilitation Centre, Royal Hospital Woofindin Annexe, Woofindin Hall, Whiteley Woods
Location:	Sheffield_Fulwood
Date Period:	1940-1959
Copyright::	Sheffield Hospitals History Group
Notes:	Because of the working conditions both above and below ground in coal mines there was the ever present risk of acute trauma to bones and muscles. In addition there was chronic damage to joints. To facilitate recovery as quickly and efficiently as possible resident rehabilitation centres were available with physiotherapy and other services. Two local ones were at Firbeck in Nottinghamshire and at the Woofindin Centre (from 1943) in Whiteley Woods, Sheffield. In 1955 the Woofindin Rehabilitation Centre was renamed Whiteley Woods Hospital and in 1958 the Whiteley Wood Psychiatry Clinic of the United Sheffield Hospitals and Sheffield University
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