NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 52, Issue 39

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What (if any) difference is there between a Sanatarium and Sanitorium?




>  "Consumption" was an old name for Tuburculosis, which seemed to "consume" its victims.

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>  On another aspect of the story, It is kind of interesting to think of the sentimentality attached to a building that is all of 22 years old. Can any here imagine feeling nostalgia for a building built in 1988?

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>  Ken Miller

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>  On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:23 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

>   Anyone know what a "home for consumptives" is?

>

>    Thanks,

>    Dave Willis

>    (blt 1962, c/n 4)

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> In 1908 the Commonwealth of Va appropriated $40,000 to establish the first

> Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Catawba, west of Roanoke. Did the N&W Catawba

> branch exist at least in part because of the sanitorium?

>

> Craig Close

> Balimer, Merlan

> OK: Far West Catonsville

> OR: Greater Oella

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>>>Anyone know what a "home for consumptives" is?<<

>

> Consumption was the old name for tuberculosis, so consumptives were people

> with that disease. Before antibiotics, tuberculosis was essentially a death

> sentence. Mountain air was believed to ease the symptoms so TB sanitariums

> were frequently located in mountainous areas.

>

> Rob doorack