My Great Grandfather was here as a boy according to 1911 census:
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1911england&...From family knowledge I know he died at the age of 40 from TB so it makes sense he was there due to illness as a child.
He is buried at Odd Rode:
http://places.wishful-thinking.org.uk/CHS/OddRode/MIs.htmlAmanda Emma BOOTH, 12 Oct 1978, 71
John Henry, h, 18 April 1943, 40
Ivy, d, died in infancy
From his marriage certificate to Amanda Emma Mould we know his father was Frederick Booth but thats about it.
Have pieced together a possible history based on a Frederick Booth living in Mow Cop (where the family were from) in 1911 who had 6 children, 3 dead, 3 living, 2 living at home....
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1911England&...Assumption here is obvious illness, 3 children dead and assumption that the one not living at home is John Booth at West Heath Sanitorium.
Anyhow coming to the point, does anyone know anything more on West Heath Sanitorium.
When I search for West Heath Sanitorium it comes up with a place in Birmingham with same name, all I can find for one in Congleton is the following with National Archives:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=017-...Looks like later it was known as West Heath Hospital (+ variations thereof) and closed in 1984:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.a...Problem is the records on file are all post 1924 which is of no use.
Further searching seems it was also known as "Hospital for Infectious Diseases, West Heath, Congleton":
http://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/data/VOLUME041-1908/page193-vol...If anyone has any further info I'd love to hear it....