Keywords: convalescent home
Item 26614
The Lucette, Thomaston, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1970 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 23576
Letter seeking home TB treatment advice, 1909
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1909-01-04 Location: Bangor; Hebron Media: Ink on paper
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When America entered the Great War in 1917, the government sent out pleas for help from American women, many of whom responded at the battle front and on the home front.
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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.
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Lincoln, Maine - Other Early Hospitals
"… moved to her hometown, Bangor, and opened a convalescent hospital there. She operated that until her death at the age of 55 on July 14, 1960."
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