N&W in 1910--Office building

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Wed Jan 27 08:22:37 EST 2010


A home for consumptives would be a dwelling place for patients with
tuberculosis -- also known as a sanitarium (or sanitorium...which was
also used as a synonym for a mental hospital....)

These were usual rest homes in the mountains where one went to recover
or not, from TB or consumption. Early on, they were private, the states
took over in the early 1900's -- Catawba, Blue Ridge and Burkeville were
the three in Virginia. All are gone but three remain nationwide
(Colorado, Texas and Florida) as medications have replaced rest cures.


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