https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/j-n-adam-memorial-hospital
This involved relying on the rays from the Sun to help cure the patients of their disease. In 1960, the hospital was converted from a tuberculosis hospital into an institutional mental facility.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barlow-hospital
The main 1927 treatment building, where outdoor TB beds were once arrayed under Spanish-style arches, now houses the state-of-the-art Barlow Respiratory Hospital, which has perfected the delicate

https://www.abandonedspaces.com/hospital/molly-stark-sanatorium.html
The design of the Molly Stark Sanatorium was a testament to the medical beliefs of the early 20th century. The facility opened in 1929 and was constructed with large windows and expansive balconies, allowing patients to soak in the therapeutic benefits of natural light and fresh air. This architectural style, known as "sanatorium architecture

https://untappedcities.com/2023/04/11/sea-view-hospital-staten-island/
Thirty-seven buildings were constructed from 1905 to 1938 adjacent to the New York City Farm Colony on Staten Island to serve as the City's new tuberculosis hospital. It was built upon the site

https://untappedcities.com/2024/02/20/abandoned-saratoga-county-homestead-hospital/
Staten Island's Seaview Hospital which was instrumental in finding the cure for TB closed in 1961. The last patients of Saratoga County Homestead left in August of 1960.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/health/once-upon-a-time-a-plague-was-vanquished.html
Former grounds of Sea View Tuberculosis Hospital (Staten Island, NYC) lend insight into disease that was once leading killer of people in New York City; facility, which houses Sea View Health Care

https://untappedcities.com/2015/03/03/inside-the-abandoned-childrens-hospital-and-tunnels-at-seaview-hospital-staten-island/
Photo by @nativenyc. Seaview Hospital was once the largest tuberculosis sanatorium in the country, now listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and is also a U.S. Historic District

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/glenn-dale-hospital
Discover Glenn Dale Hospital in Glenn Dale, Maryland: An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

https://www.tpr.org/podcast/petrie-dish/2023-09-14/inside-americas-last-remaining-tuberculosis-hospital
By 1959, it had nearly 1000 beds and was one of the largest TB sanatoria in the United States. There are nowhere near 1000 beds in this hospital. It has 75 beds now. But TB isn't the killer it once was. Make no mistake; the disease can still kill you. Worldwide it still kills about 1 million people a year, but we understand the enemy now.

https://www.abandonedamerica.us/central-islip-tuberculosis-ward
Central Islip Tuberculosis Ward. Originally built as a part of Central Islip State Hospital (built in 1889, closed in 1996), the tuberculosis wards were largely forgotten as the state hospital itself was demolished over several years to make way for New York Institute of Technology's campus, a golf course, and a residential neighborhood.

https://abandonedonline.net/location/musconetcong-sanitarium/
The Musconetcong Hospital for Chest Diseases was converted into a 288-bed 1 state-sponsored nursing home in 1977 and was renamed the Musconetcong Gero-Psychiatric Hospital. 2 The Employee Dormitory, English Pavilion, and Infirmary Building were shuttered immediately after. Musconetcong began admitting seriously ill 18 to 65-year-old patients of

https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/ellis-island-hard-hat-tour/
The hospital was so prestigious that "once you worked here you could go anywhere," says Moyer. The infectious disease hospital had 17 separate wards, connected by a central corridor. Each room in the tuberculosis ward features two sinks—the smaller, higher of the two was used by patients coughing up blood.

https://www.facebook.com/RNGDnomad/videos/from-hope-to-decay-exploring-an-abandoned-tb-hospital/606374411462193/
In this video, we explore an abandoned tuberculosis hospital that operated from the early 1900s to the late 1970s and saw around 1,000 deaths throughout... | hospital, 1970s, urban exploration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM7USJq59aY
Exploring The Abandoned Remains Of The TB Disease Chest Hospital Join us as we explore this old abandoned TB Disease hospital .Please note this was a permiss

https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanexploration/comments/a3tuob/abandoned_tuberculosis_hospital_in_new_york_the/
Tuberculosis is usually a bacterial infection, and Wikipedia says that the bacteria normally responsible can survive for a few weeks in the dry, so I'd say it's basically impossible, seeing as this place has clearly been abandoned for years. Any liquid would be dry, unless it's in a sealed container, and the bacteria is highly aerobic.

https://www.abandonedcentral.com/blog/2022/10/9/massive-abandoned-tuberculosis-hospital
The hospital officially opened its doors in 1930 as a tuberculosis sanitarium. The sanitariums unique design featured massive open air porches and huge clear glass windows that provided the patients with as much natural sunlight and fresh air as possible, mainly as this was the preferred treatment modality for TB at that time.By the 1960's, the sanatarium shifted to more of a hospital

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-nations-first-tuberculosis-hospital-was-built-inside-a-cave
Convinced of the curative properties of the cave's air, Dr. John Croghan purchased Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, the longest cave system in the world, for $10,000 in 1839. He planned to build a

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-abandoned-hospital-take-chilling-5017657
Abandoned Tuberculosis hospital View gallery The hospital in Perrysburg, New York , lives on among 500 acres of forest, its future use shrouded in doubt because of an ownership dispute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPjhR5IA6ao
Charles Camsell HospitalWe do not intend to vandalise or cause any trouble. we go to abandoned places because thats what we love to do, to explore the past a

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/exceptional-discovery-reveals-more-than-30-ancient-egyptian-tombs-built-into-hillside
Archaeologists led by Patrizia Piacentini observing remains of mummies retrieved from tombs in Aswan. ... the doctors confirmed that some had tuberculosis, which may have wiped out an entire

https://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Middle_Tennessee_Tuberculosis_Hospital
With a steadily dwindling number of patients in later years, the state hospital closed its doors June 30, 1976. Its three patients were transferred to the state-operated chest disease hospital in Knoxville, and other jobs were found for most of the 213 employees. By then, drug treatments had made long periods of bed rest and isolation unnecessary.

https://wpln.org/post/curious-nashville-the-complicated-past-of-a-historic-tuberculosis-hospital/
That new building, on the same campus, was dedicated Feb. 28, 1954 - a 7-story, 222-bed hospital with a cost of $4.3 million. As of 1976, its days as a TB hospital were over. Scientific advances in the treatment of the lung disease no longer required sending patients off to wait out their symptoms.

https://www.killerurbex.com/abandoned-hospitals/
Exploring Abandoned Hospitals and Asylums: A 2024 Overview. Urban exploration, or "urbex," has captivated the adventurous and the curious alike. Among the various structures that beckon these explorers, abandoned hospitals hold a special allure. These once-bustling centers of healing and hope now stand silent, their empty halls and decaying

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-egypt-tomb-ancient-diseases-ministry.html
She said preliminary studies on the remains showed that "some suffered from infectious diseases, ... chest diseases, tuberculosis and signs of osteoporosis", Piacentini said in a ministry

https://www.reddit.com/r/urbanexploration/comments/52di9e/is_it_safe_to_explore_an_abandoned_tb/
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