Person/Organization: Wadleigh, Merle G.
Item 23630
Western Maine Sanatorium gate, 1928
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Hebron Media: Photographic print
Item 23632
Children's Cottage, Western Maine Sanatorium, 1928
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Hebron Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
