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The former dispensary building has been turned into a little nature museum. It was open when I was there, so I got to see a bit of the interior. Though most rooms have been remodeled, the front rooms still whisper of the building's original purpose.
The Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium was founded in 1915, and located on Chicago's northwest side. The grounds included a large facility that had a capacity of 950 residents, along with buildings dedicated to all the services needed to keep the facility up and running. The facility closed in 1974, but the majority of the buildings are still intact. The patient housing complex has been renovated and turned into a senior citizens residential facility, and some of the additional buildings have been repurposed by the park district to serve the adjacent North Park Village Nature Center.
If interested to learn more about the sanitarium, check out: francesarcher.com/serial-stories/municipal-tuberculosis-s...
This really was a nice dining hall and I was privileged to have more than a few meals here before the building was torn down in 1990. This picture is ca. 1920
Medication for Tuberculosis patients in Belgogrod, Russia. The average duration of the treatment is four to six months. In addition to the drugs, patients receive food parcels. Photo: Vladimir Melnik/International Federation (p15491)
To find out more, go to www.ifrc.org.
A well traveled road led from the sanitorium to the top of Government Hill, later renamed Lapham Peak.
Image from a sepia-toned postcard. From the 75th anniversary of the american lung association. It depicts a "Grand Hotel" advertising a free tuberculosis exhibit to educate people on how to prevent "consumption" by the New York Tuberculosis Association. Text from postcard: "Early in this century, exhibits informed the public on Preventing TB. Often, these resemble modern 'storefront health centers.'"
September, 1939.
Background - White show card.
Subject - Tuberculosis
Color plate of skin reaction
Color drawing of tbc bacilli
X-ray of chest on paper film
Lettering in black ink.
Page from Public Health Department photo album
Headstone marking the grave of C. John Benegas in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery
Prescott, Arizona...
C. John was born on January 30, 1912 in Juarez, Mexico to Joe & Natalia (Mairin) Benegas. He moved to Prescott in 1924 with his family.
C. John lived in Prescott where he worked as an electrical supplies salesman. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis on March 20, 1938 at the age of 26 years. He was never married...
Dr John Croghan ran an ill-fated tuberculosis research facility inside Mammoth Cave after purchasing the cave in 1839. I could make a big deal about the "orbs" in the doorway and surrounding this gloomy hut where TB patients may have died, but I can assure they are dust particles. I found them to be annoying as they appeared in most photos that day!
Dr. Lisa Marie Cannon | Pulmonary tuberculosis main symptoms | Image Source: www.udel.edu/ | 10/17/2014