Meanings
- historicalnot comparableBeing or relating to a preventorium.
In 1940, the club built there a preventorial pavilion for children, which functioned until 1946, when it was discontinued and the building used as quarters for the staff.
1950, Jane Hagan, The Story of Danville, page 491 more example
Not only for the adult excluded from work because of his infirmity, but also for the child excluded from the school because of its being tuberculous or predisposed must suitable provision for its cure and education be provided in preventorial and open air schools, the value of which has already been emphasized.
1907, Nova Scotia. Dept, “Report”, in Public Health, page 35
Origin
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