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The State of Virginia recognized the need for another white sanatorium because beds were occupied year round in both Catawba and Piedmont Sanatoriums. After approval from the State, the Blue Ridge Sanatorium opens in Charlottesville on April 26, 1920 with 112 patients.
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www.faculty.virginia.edu/blueridgesanatorium/death.htm
www.faculty.virginia.edu/blueridgesanatorium/death.htm
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we got shadow images, sounds of carts with squeeky wheels, and a white apparition that looked female, which came towards us only to vanish when we greeted it. this hospital was, in its time, state of the art. the conditions of the patients were exactly what one would expect from a large hospital.
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www.trendite.net/2008/09/06/death-tunnel-white-plague-a...
www.trendite.net/2008/09/06/death-tunnel-white-plague-and-hauntings-make-waverly-hills-sanatorium-one-of-the-worlds-most-scariest-places/
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However this "white plague" swept over the population, and by the 1920's, TB outbreaks grew, overwhelming this small facility. ... Waverly Hills is a sanitOrium. With an O, not an A. A sanitArium is a place for mental health, a sanitOrium is a hospital for physical health.
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darksidesanitarium.blogspot.com/2007/10/waverly-hill-sa...
darksidesanitarium.blogspot.com/2007/10/waverly-hill-sanitarium-death-tunnel.html
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The white plague also known as tuburculosis was an uncurable epidemic that was claiming hundreds of thousands of lives regularly until a cure was eventually developed. ... In 2001 the deteriating building & garbage infested land around the sanitorium was bought by Charles & Tina Mattingly for the sum of $250.000.
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ghosthauntings.org/Waverly_hills_sanatorium.aspx
ghosthauntings.org/Waverly_hills_sanatorium.aspx
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TB was called the "white plague" because people who had it became very pale. TB was a very big problem in America's crowded cities. Poor people living in cities had a hard time fighting the disease. But the poor were not the only ones who got TB.
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www.iptv.org/IowaPathways/myPath.cfm?ounid=ob_000295
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THE BLACK MAN AND THE GREAT WHITE PLAGUE. JOHN M. GIBSON. Sanatorium, North Carolina. T. UBERCULOSIS, a rarity among. Negro slaves prior to the Civil ...
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If you are sick, stay home. Someone's life may might depend on it. ... Ironically, there has long been a disturbing tendency to romanticize the white plague, as tuberculosis is also known. It is, after all, the malady that carried away the poet John Keats and the scribbling Bronte sisters;
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802480.html
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1963 indionesia bubonic plague diagnosis treatment of plague camus plague medieval prints plague pics of the black plague nursery rhyme black plague recovery after great plague of 1720 ;
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musclesmadeeasy.com/opyih/plague.php
musclesmadeeasy.com/opyih/plague.php
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many ways of treating the white plague, from rest cures in a sanatorium to chest operations and streptomycin, the chemi cal from a mold. ...
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