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Dec 17, 2019 · After its opening in 1927, the Bush-Bandeen Sanatorium began successfully treating patients and helping them heal. A number of older patients that were admitted to the sanatorium were suffering from many of the typical diseases of that time including various cancers and tuberculosis.
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In 1897, Gravenhurst, Ontario became home to the third tuberculosis sanatorium in the world — the Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium. Its Joss House gazebo (leftmost structure in the above postcard from Digital Archive Ontario) let patients relax and picnic next to Muskoka Bay. The gazebo was recognized by Ontario Heritage Trustas "a proud reminder of the ...
Initially, sanatoriums catered to wealthy patients and were almost indistinguishable from country resort hotels. However, as the medical benefits of this treatment became more widely recognized, efforts were made to support patients who couldn’t pay their own way. (This was before Ontario provided free healthcare.) Sir William Gage was a key player...
At their peak, sanatoriums in Ontario were serving huge numbers of patients, and their waiting lists were long. To add more beds, sanatoriums like Weston Sanatorium got creative with their space, using out-of-service horse-drawn streetcars as patient pavilions. After streptomycin was discovered in 1944, use of sanatoriums in Ontario declined. Many ...
Books
1. The Weariness, the Fever and the Fret: The Campaign Against Tuberculosis in Canada, 1900-1950by Katherine McCuaig (1999) 2. Curing Tuberculosis in Muskoka: Canada’s First Sanatoriaby Andrea Baston (2013)
Online exhibits
1. Medical Records at the Archives of Ontarioby Archives of Ontario 2. Fighting for Breath: Stopping the TB Epidemicby Museum of Health Care in Kingston
Videos
1. "Her Own Fault,"a government-made video demonstrating unhealthy lifestyle, from Library and Archives Canada (1921)
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In examining children within the Toronto sanatorium from the early to the mid-twentieth century, she focuses on the biological relationship between children’s bodies and mycobacterium tuberculosis as well as the social experiences of childhood within a medical institution. Burke’s contribution is a rather lengthy one.
Sep 15, 2023 · Anilniliak was one of around 1,200 Inuit infected with TB who were taken by force to the Hamilton sanatorium during the 1950s and '60s. A photo shows Nancy Anilniliak in the sanatorium at the...
At the forefront of the battle against the new strains of TB is West Park Health Care Centre. This centre, the continuation of the first Toronto Sanitarium, on the Humber River near Jane Street and Lawrence Avenue in northwest Toronto provides a link to the beginning of the NSA in 1896.
Canada’s first tuberculosis hospital was the Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium, opened in 1897 at Gravenhurst, a location chosen for its clear air. The Muskoka Free Hospital for Consumptives was built on the same site in 1902, the first free tuberculosis hospital in the world.
The NSA first built a sanatorium for private (paying) patients with incip-ient (early-stage) tuberculosis, later expanding their building program to include sanatoria for free (non- or partial-paying) incipient patients, free advanced-stage patients, and private advanced-stage patients.
