Contributed by Maine State Archives
Description
A New Brunswick woman, Mrs. G.H. Ball, wrote to the Maine State Sanatorium in Hebron in 1909 seeking admittance to the facility to treat tuberculosis in her left lung.
She reported that she had been trying home treatment but had been unsuccessful. She had previously been in a sanatorium in Rhode Island.
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About This Item
- Title: Letter seeking TB treatment, 1909
- Creator: Ball
- Creation Date: 1909-03-16
- Subject Date: 1909-03-16
- Location: Irishtown, Kent County, NB, Canada
- Media: Pencil on paper
- Local Code: 2613-076, Box 2/1909, March 16-31
- Object Type: Text
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Sanatoriums--Maine
- Invalids
- Western Maine Sanatorium
- Sick persons
- Tuberculosis hospitals--Maine
- Hospitals, convalescent--Maine--Hebron
- Maine State Sanatorium
- Tuberculosis--New Brunswick
- Tuberculosis--Maine
- Ball, G.H., Mrs..--Correspondence
- Nichols, Estes--Correspondence
- Letters
- Ball, G.H., Mrs.--Health
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