Las colonias escolares marítimas madrileñas en el Sanatorio de Pedrosa (1910-1911)

Abstract

In 1910 were inaugurated maritime National Sanatorium of Oza (La Coruña) and Pedrosa (Santander), thanks to the interest showed by the Departement of the Interior. The Town hall of Madrid sent the first year to Pedrosa a colony in the shape of test in two shifts and other one the County council. In the summer season of the following year, the National Patronage of Deaf, Dumb and Blind persons moved a colony to the cantabrian sanatorium as well as the Council of Madrid.

The designation of a teacher’s index of recognized value and the accomplishment of multiple activities outdoors, produced important improvements in the physical and intellectual dimensions of the children. It was due to the fact that the school participants were not chronic, but weak, sickly and anaemic patients. The stay of the children of Madrid in the Sanatorium of Pedrosa was qualified as a prolongation of the school.