Salvation Ch. 18 Cruel Treatments
Samuel Croft, the eminent but sadistic doctor, paused to gaze up at the front of Birbeck House, a sanatorium for children in London’s Gilspur Street. As he drew nearer, he was able to admire its architecture. It stood three stories high and over eighty feet long, and had windows that were heavily draped. The dark roof gleamed from the recent downpour and the windows reflected the sunlight, moving from pane to pane as he approached. The building stood well back from the street and had a doorman always in attendance for added security. Built for up to fifty patients, who were accommodated in their own private soundproofed rooms situated on the second and third floors, it could also accommodate twenty staff in pleasant if not functional rooms in the basement. Doctor Croft’s own quarters are …