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  Handbook of Texas Online:
Sanatorium is in Tom Green County sixteen miles northwest of San Angelo on U.S. Highway 87.
The postmark "Sanatorium, Texas" began with the opening of a post office on the campus in 1919 and disappeared on October 7, 1965, when the post office closed.
Attracting employees was difficult because of the fear of TB, low wages, and geographic isolation, therefore, the Sanatorium School for Nurses in Texas was organized in 1915 to train the needed staff.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/hls16.html   (871 words)

  
 Sanatorium
Nasze sanatorium oferuje leczenie m.in.: narządów ruchu, kręgosłupa, schorzeń dermatologicznych oraz reumatologicznych oraz innych.
Pobyt w Sanatorium Malinowym Zdroju łączy komfort z możliwością specjalistycznego leczenia schorzeń narządów ruchu, kręgosłupa oraz problemów skórnych.
Do dyspozycji gości w sanatorium oddano restaurację, kawiarnię oraz klub nocny, który wyposażony jest w dwa tory do gry w kręgle, dwa stoły bilardowe, piłkarzyki, darty, oraz parkiet taneczny.
www.sanatorium.pl   (159 words)

  
  Paimio Sanatorium - Alvar Aalto - Great Buildings Online
"Alvar Aalto's tuberculosis sanatorium, now a general hospital, remotely situated in thick forest about 29km (18 miles) east of Turku, is the building that first put Finland on the modern architectural map.
Aalto's winning competition design was made in 1929 and the sanatorium was built in 1929-33.
It is informally planned, each department occupying a separate wing and the wings radiating from the centre at different angles, determined by the direction of sunlight and view.
www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Paimio_Sanatorium.html   (157 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for sanatorium
sanatorium establishment for the treatment of invalids; room for the sick.
It was purchased in 1835 from the raja of Sikkim and was developed as a sanatorium for British troops.
Sanatoriums: Collective memory Twenty years ago, any Russian taking their holiday in one of the sanitoriums that line the Black Sea's rocky coast would have been the object of great envy.
www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=sanatorium   (685 words)

  
 Sanatorium | World of Health
In general, a sanatorium was designed to treat people suffering from a particular disease, such as tuberculosis.
Sanatoriums (also called sanitariums), were common in Europe for centuries, but they didn't become popular in the United States until the latter part of the 1800s.
The Trudeau Sanatorium at Saranac Lake was not the first sanatorium in the country, but it was the first one designed to treat people with tuberculosis.
www.bookrags.com /research/sanatorium-woh   (506 words)

  
 Manitoba History: The Manitoba Sanatorium, Ninette
The history of the sanatorium began as early as the 1850s in Europe and its value was firmly established by Sir Robert W. Phillip of Edinburgh who, in 1887, organized his dispensary to treat tubercular cases and also to keep a close watch on the health of the family members of his patients.
After five years of fundraising, the Sanatorium on Pelican Lake, near Ninette, was opened in May of 1910, with a capacity for sixty patients—a capacity which, of necessity, quadrupled in thirteen years.
An infected lung of a patient was often temporarily collapsed and put to rest by the induction of air between the lung and the chest wall (pneumothorax) or even permanently collapsed by the surgical removal of seven or eight ribs (thoracoplasty).
www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/mb_history/07/sanatorium.shtml   (762 words)

  
 History
Coincidental with the addition of these new buildings, the sanatorium grounds were increased from 32 acres to nearly 200 acres, a large part of it being farmland where the institution would grow its own vegetables.
By the 1970's, as a result of the decline, many of the sanatorium's buildings were no longer in use and the county struggled to find ways in which to utilize them.
The sanatorium's vacant wards were used to care for the overflow of mental patients from nearby Overbrook, the psychiatric hospital located on Fairview Ave.
www.mountainsanatorium.net /history.htm   (1079 words)

  
 BBC News | HEALTH | TB: The sandbag and fresh air cure
The sanatorium had 300 beds - and the regime, under the direction of Dr Peter Edwards, was one of "fresh air and rest".
The catchment area for the sanatorium covered Liverpool and Cheshire, and many of the people who were sent there might never have seen the countryside before, and might not even have had the luxury of their own bed.
The stigma attached to the disease itself meant that sanatorium staff were regarded with caution outside of the hospital gates.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/564540.stm   (828 words)

  
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In 1854 Columbus Patton was declared insane, possibly as a result of a brain tumor, he was sent to a sanatorium and died in 1856 of Typhoid fever.
Sanatorium "Dubna" is located on the hill under the sea in the beautiful places of Alushta - Professorial Nook.
The pattern was the sanatorium with 'butterfly' pavilions, built in Davos in 1903.
www.lycos.com /info/sanatorium--miscellaneous.html   (487 words)

  
 Sanatorium Summary
A sanatorium is distinct from a psychiatric hospital.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium, a Louisville, Kentucky tuberculosis sanatorium, was founded in 1911.
The Heliantia Sanatorium in Valadares, Portugal was used for the treatment of bone tuberculosis between the 1930s and 1960s.
www.bookrags.com /Sanatorium   (736 words)

  
 The Tuberculosis Experience of African-Americans in Virginia
Thomas Spees Carrington, author of the guidebook on sanatorium construction, said, "a damp or swampy location should be avoided, as such land when selected must be drained." J. Walter Hosier wrote to Governor Stuart relaying a discussion he had had with a fl doctor about the unsuitable property.
Rather than protest the location of a sanatorium in the community, the City of Charlottesville paid $15,000 of the $32,000 required for the procurement of the property where Blue Ridge was built.
Children were admitted at Blue Ridge Sanatorium as early as 1922, when the construction of the new Trinkle building for adult patients made it possible for the Thomas pavilion to become a designated space for youth.
www.faculty.virginia.edu /blueridgesanatorium/piedmont.html   (3540 words)

  
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Today it is a sad ruin that has suffered badly from vandals and the elements, nonetheless it still reflects some of the grandeur of the early years of its existence.
The former Glen 0' Dee tuberculosis (TB) sanatorium near Banchory was one of the six at-risk Scottish buildings which were featured in the recent BBC Restoration series.
The Bavarian-style sanatorium, where the author Somerset Maugham was once a patient, has lain empty and has been steadily deteriorating since it was finally declared surplus to NHS requirements four years ago.
www.lycos.com /info/sanatorium.html   (500 words)

  
 Sanatorium Helios - IVF   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Success Rate in Sanatorium Helios — SIVF is expressed as a ratio of embryo-transfers that yield in clinical gravidity to the total number of transfers.
In Sanatorium Helios —Sydney IVF only high-quality embryos in the stage of blastocyst are being frozen.
In Sanatorium Helios — Sydney IVF the medical care is focused on satisfaction of all your needs.
www.sanatoriumhelios.cz /_en_ivf/uspesnost_en.html   (1008 words)

  
 Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium Historic Site
The Board intends to locate the Sanatorium at the best place for the purpose, and if the state could obtain the land by donation, they would be grateful for it.
The Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium was a self-sustaining city of its own, complete with a municipal-like water and sewer system, as well as it own fire department.
During its hey-day, the Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium had a population of patients and staff that was larger than the City of Booneville in the valley below.
www.booneville.com /C-TB.htm   (1170 words)

  
 Sanatorium Stories
I was all for a nighttime rendezvous with the sanatorium.
When the Sanatorium closed, I think the County took it over with an eye towards expanding Overbrook, but all they used was the Medical Staff building, and one of the smaller buildings for The Turning Point, which I think may have also gone by the names of MICA, and ALANON.
The sanatorium was our home for a lot of us for many years and to watch it go through its stages of being knocked down is killing a part of who we are/were.
www.nomorejello.net /stories.htm   (8072 words)

  
 Cloudcraft Baby Sanatorium
The oldest patient to attend was at the sanatorium in 1919.
While at the reunion, he saw a picture of babies sitting on the sanatorium’s porch and was able to identify one of the babies as himself.
These sanatoriums were milestones for infant care in El Paso’s history and a testament to what can be accomplished when others come together for a worthy cause.
www.epcc.edu /nwlibrary/borderlands/22_cloudcraft_baby_sanatorium.htm   (1487 words)

  
 purevolume™ | SANATORIUM
Sanatorium recorded 3 demos (Subculture-1005, Autumn Shadows-1996, Necrologue-1998) and debut album "Arrival of the forgotten ones" - 1999 in more melodic way of death metal.
After those recordings Sanatorium changed line-up drastically and musick as well...
At the moment Sanatorium supports latest album "Celebration of exhumation" with intensive live actions, touring in Europe a lot and plays various festivals!!!
www.purevolume.com /sanatorium/fans   (118 words)

  
 Sanatorium
Slovakia's Sanatorium take direct inspiration from a very specfic North American style of death metal music, created primarily by Suffocation and expanded and carried on through the years by Deeds of Flesh, Fleshgrind, and hundreds of other extreme death metal musicans bent on ultra gore and destruction.
Sanatorium display a profound ability at unrestrained and uncompromising death metal form in Internal Womb Cannibalism, the band's second release.
Truely, Sanatorium may not sound anything different then Regurgitation, Deeds of Flesh, Vile, or any other band carrying the death metal badge of brutality, but they are from Slovakia and are unique in that respect in showcasing a united worldwide death metal underground.
www.angelfire.com /zine/jackalblaster/Sanatoriumreview.html   (270 words)

  
 An History of the Fight Against Tuberculosis in Canada.
The next province to enter the Sanatorium Age was Nova Scotia, where the 8 bed Highland View Sanatorium was open from 1899 to 1903, and replaced in 1904 by the 18 bed Kentville Sanatorium.
"With regard to the location of sanatoriums, the philosophy gradually developed that by establishing these institutions nearer to the centers of population, they would be more convenient for the patients and their families, and it would be easier to obtain staff and consultation services from nearby general hospitals.
Thus, many sanatoriums began to be built in urban centres, closer to the people, and to resources on which the sanatoriums’ relied.
www.lung.ca /tb/tbhistory/sanatoriums/first.html   (470 words)

  
 Sanatorium
The first concert of Sanatorium took place in may, 1994, in hometown and this show was followed by further gigs in another Slovak cities.
Sanatorium recorded in may 1999 their debut CD “Arrival of the forgotten ones” in Pro-Art studio again.
In august and september Sanatorium toured in Bulgaria, Poland, Finland, Latvia, Belarus… and in novemeber supported CENTINEX on “Bloodhunt” tour through Belgium, Holland, Germany, Czech, Slovakia… Milan decided to leave the band and new drummer was found in person of Dzordz.
www.brutalism.com /sanat.html   (1268 words)

  
 YouTube - SANATORIUM - Fetus Rape
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www.youtube.com /watch?v=AgvmZLV_RM8   (399 words)

  
 WAVERLY HILLS SANATORIUM!
In 1961, Waverly Hills Sanatorium was closed because there was no longer a need for a tuberculosis facility.
When the Sanatorium operated here, it was the medical director's office, but now it became the girls “safe room”.
Chairs, food, and water were set up if the girls needed a break while filming or needed a place to retreat to if things became too much for them to bear.
www.prairieghosts.com /waverly_tb.html   (6810 words)

  
 EastSouthWestNorth: Taiwan Bloggers Organize To Save Losheng Sanatorium
At the background is the planned dismantling of the old Losheng Sanatorium in order to make way for a mass rapid transit system construction project by the Taipei City Department of Rapid Transit Systems.
The Losheng Sanatorium had been constructed in early 20th century to house leprosy patients.
Many of the leprosy patients would stay on at the sanatorium even after they are no longer infectious, because this is the one part of society that would not reject them.
www.zonaeuropa.com /20070317_1.htm   (628 words)

  
 HistoryLink Essay:Firland Sanatorium
Firland Sanatorium, Seattle’s municipal tuberculosis hospital, opened on May 2, 1911, to help combat what was at the time Seattle’s leading cause of death.
A leading founder of Firland Sanatorium was the railroad magnate Horace C. Henry (1844-1928), whose son Walter had died of TB.
Departing patients were cautioned to continue getting as much rest as possible, to return regularly to the Firland Clinic for checkups, to consult with their doctor when considering type of employment, and to remain on vigilant watch for the return of any tuberculosis symptoms.
www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=3928   (3858 words)

  
 Shuvelan Sanatorium
Shuvelan Sanatorium, 30-40 minutes drive from Baku, is home to around 35 children suffering from respiratory disorders.
The entire sanatorium has fallen into a state of disrepair, but when we arrived to investigate, we discovered that the toilet, bathroom, and classroom facilities were the worst.
Thanks to a truly multinational effort, we have been able to embark on a $34,000 renovation and refurbishment programme, during which (and to save costs) all three facilities were tackled at the same time.
www.geocities.com /csabaku/projects/shuvelan.htm   (252 words)

  
 Horel House: Arcata Sanatorium   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was built on the hill where it shared both the view and the prestige of location with the finer homes of Arcata.
Their injuries made it necessary to have a sanatorium where they could be treated.
"The Sanatorium is located in a pleasant and healthful situation, commanding a beautiful view of the surrounding country.
www.humboldt.edu /~barnum/Cooper/sanato.htm   (200 words)

  
 Sanatorium   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The McGregor Museum is housed in the Sanatorium in Kimberley and is the
Cecil John Rhodes instigated the construction of this building (the Kimberley Sanatorium) which was completed in 1897.
The Sanatorium was more like a hotel than a hospital and in 1908 the name was changed to Hotel Belgrave.
www.museumsnc.co.za /McGregor/satellites/Sanatorium.htm   (444 words)

  
 Sanatorium Pod Tężniami   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The graduation towers with their recognized healing powers and the beautiful park create friendly environment and perfect conditions for recovery and relaxation.
In the recent 20 years we have established the reputation of being a sanatorium of a wide range and high standards of services and treatments.
We have transformed the sanatorium into a modern, well-equipped place which meets the demanding international standards in the area of accommodation, services, treatments and medical care, and food preparing.
www.sanatorium-podtezniami.pl /html/ang/firma.htm   (178 words)

  
 AR State Tuberculosis Sanatorium Legislative Acts
AN ACT to provide for the location, erection, organization, management and maintenance of a State Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis in the State of Arkansas, and making an appropriation for the purchase of the necessary land and the construction and equipment of the necessary buildings and for the maintenance of the sanatorium.
The Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium is established for treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis.
Control of Sanatorium is transferred from the Department of Health to the Board of Arkansas Mental Retardation - Developmental Disability Services.
www.booneville.com /C-TB2.htm   (431 words)

  
 THE SANATORIUM - DISPENSARY OF BSEU
It is a healing dispensary establishment of sanatorium type, its profile is general-therapeutic treatment.
The main objective is to conduct the healing and sanitary work among students and the staff of the University while patients are continuing their studies and daily work.
Students in need of any kind of sanatorium and physiotherapeutic healing, especially those who are often and lastingly sick, who are observed at clinics and health centres are directed to the sanatorium-dispensary in first place.
www.bseu.minsk.by /english/profilaktorij.htm   (342 words)

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