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Fort Spokane Sanitarium for Tuberculosis

ID: 4749 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.

This file appears in: Tuberculosis at Fort Spokane


This file appears in: Tuberculosis at Fort Spokane

Tuberculosis at Fort Spokane

By Nicolle Southwick
In the early 1900s, tuberculosis was known as the “great white plague,” and at the turn of the century it killed around 450 Americans every day. An infectious disease of the lungs, tuberculosis…

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