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Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives: Walker, Minnesota: 1907 Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanatorium Wales, Wisconsin [17] 1907 Vermont Sanatorium Pittsford, Vermont [18] 1909 Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium: Booneville, Arkansas [10] 1909 Catawba Sanatorium Roanoke, Virginia [19] 1909 La Vina Sanitarium Altadena, California [20] 1909
The history of tuberculosis encompasses the origins of the disease, tuberculosis (TB) ... the first anti-tuberculosis sanatorium was established in 1854, ...
A 1978 Finnish postage stamp, depicting the 1933 Paimio tuberculosis sanatorium, designed by Alvar Aalto. A sanatorium (from Latin sānāre 'to heal, make healthy'), also sanitarium or sanitorium, [1] [2] is a historic name for a specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments, and convalescence.
The Cragmor Sanatorium is now a building on the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus. [27] [28] The Cragmor Sanatorium was founded by leading tuberculosis specialist Dr. Edwin S. Solly in 1906. It was built in the Austin Bluffs, or Cragmor area. General William Jackson Palmer donated funds toward the construction of the facility for ...
In 1949, James T. Duncan named the medical superintendent of the sanitarium until its closure. He had previously served as the director of Stony Brook Sanatorium in Kern County before moving to Livermore. [5] The sanitarium went into decline after Streptomycin became the main treatment for tuberculosis during the 1940s and 1950s. By 1959, the ...
Piedmont Sanatorium School of Tuberculosis Nursing, a two-year nursing school for black women, was founded shortly after the Sanatorium opened. It allowed the black women to become certified specifically in tuberculosis nursing; a third year of training at St. Phillips Hospital in Richmond was required in order to become a Registered Nurse.
Glen Lake Sanatorium is one of several tuberculosis facilities in Minnesota that is featured in the website Minnesota's Tuberculosis Sanatoriums. "Interrupted Lives: The History of Tuberculosis in Minnesota and Glen Lake Sanatorium," written by Mary Krugerud, was published by North Star Press, St. Cloud MN, in September 2017.
The state of Oregon mandated public medical care to tuberculosis patients in 1910, after which patients from the Milwaukie Heights hospital were relocated to the new sanatorium in Salem; the Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital was established in the former building (constructed in 1894) that had housed the Oregon State Deaf-Mute School from 1896 ...