Phthisis

If you trawl through the records you will discover a large number of deaths of young people in the Manor Valley in the early decades of the 20th century.    This was the Manor Valley Sanatorium - Caverhill house on the Wemyss and March Estate - and many were brought here, not only from all over the Borders but as far away as Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire in the West.    One treatment for tuberculosis (not a cure) was to have the maximum of fresh air, patients often sleeping on verandahs.   

Phthisis pulmonaris was the archaic title that appears on death certificates, or the dreaded word "consumption".   

Extra:   The view from the former sanatorium.   The white house in the landscape is Barns House, also part of the great Wemyss and March estate.