Keywords: doctors fees
Item 108564
Medical services fee card, Jonesport, 1918
Contributed by: An individual through Westport Island History Committee Date: 1918-09-01 Location: Jonesport; Kelley Point; Beals Island; Westport Island; Brunswick; Mechanic Falls Media: Ink on paper
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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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