Article ID: CBB001214035

The Work of Sherwood Hall and the Haiju Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Colonial Korea (2013)

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Sherwood Hall established a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1928 in Haeju, Hwanghaedo Province. While founding Haiju Sanatorium, he had to overcome a couple of problems. Firstly, foreign missions could not afford a sanatorium. The Methodist mission that dispatched Hall initially expressed a negative response to his endeavors. Ms. Verburg's bequest finally enabled Hall to build a sanatorium. The next obstacle was the objections of neighbors. To overcome opposition, Hall called the sanatorium a School of Hygiene for the Tuberculosis. Finding staffs, nurses in particular, was another problem. Hall stressed that, with precautionary measures, there was relatively little risk. Hall tried to furnish the sanatorium with the most modern facilities and make the sanatorium a place where the public was taught to fight against tuberculosis. Furthermore, Hall built a model farm in conjunction with the sanatorium. The farm would work not only as a stock farm for providing milk and meat but also as a field for occupational therapy. In 1932, in order to secure funding for the expansion of the sanatorium, Hall published the first Christmas seals in Korea, using the sale as an opportunity to organize a civil movement. The relationship of the Haiju Sanatorium with the colonial power was very amicable. Hall was able to establish the sanatorium through the generous co-operation of the colonial government. To the colonial power, the establishment of a tuberculosis sanatorium would mean a lessening of the suffering and death rate from tuberculosis. However, the situation changed in the early 1930s. The colonial power ruled out one of its potentially greatest allies, the missionary power. When the Association for Tuberculosis Prevention of Hwanghaedo Province was established, Hall was appointed to none of the major positions. Medical missionaries could be a threat to the colonial power, which wanted to lead the antituberculosis movement. In 1940, Hall was expelled from Korea, being allegedly accused as a spy of America.

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Authors & Contributors
Choi, Eun Kyung
Kyu Won Lee
Ji-Young Park
Jin-hyouk Kim
Oh Young Kwon
Il yeong Jeong
Concepts
Hospitals and clinics
Tuberculosis
Public health
Missionaries and missions
Colonialism
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
Places
Korea
Japan
Iowa (U.S.)
Wales
Argentina
United States
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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