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Cresson TB Sanatorium Remembered
Links

On this page I'll list  links to other web sites that have information pertaining to the Cresson sanatorium and TB in general.  
 
CRESSON SAN INFO

http://www.cambriacountyhistorical.com/index.htm     Some Info & photos of Cresson sanatorium

http://www.camgenpa.com    Cambria County, Pa Genealogy web site with loads of info including some san photos.  (Do search on 'sanatorium')

http://www.asylumprojects.org/index.php?title=Lawrence_Frick_State_Hospital   Asylum Projects 

http://pclocalhistory.wikispaces.com/

This website contains brief excerpts from live interviews conducted with local residents of the Cresson area who have a past association with the Laurence F. Flick State Hospital (formerly Cresson TB Sanatorium), either as patients or staff.  The interviews were conducted by Mr. Tomaselli's Pennsylvania History class in the Fall of 2009. 

 

OTHER SANATORIUM SITES

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=3928   History of Seattle’s Fight Against TB (Do search on "Firland" for several articles about Firland Sanatorium  and patient writeups)

http://whsmemorial.tripod.com/id29.html   Waverly Hills Sanatorium Treatments For TB Patients

 http://www.therealwaverlyhills.com/contact.htm   The Waverly Hills Sanatorium

http://www.weimar.edu/weimar-history.html   The History of Weimar College and Tuberculosis Sanatorium

http://www.lung.ca/tb/index.html    Canada’s Role In Fighting Tuberculosis

 

 PREVENTORIUM SITES

American Public Health Association 1930  article “What Is A Preventorium” is at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1555984&pageindex=1

http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/15/9/764.pdf    Sun Worshipping In Pennsylvania Kids

 For many photos of children at a preventorium, go to http://public.fotki.com/Preventorium/preventorium-photos/ 

 An excellant book on this subject is entitled "Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970"   by Cynthia A. Connolly   182 Pages    Published 2008

 

 TB SITES

 http://tbphotovoice.org/tbpv2/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

The TB PhotoVoice Project provides cameras to tuberculosis (TB) affected community members (survivors, caregivers, friends, family) who take photographs that help them identify and improve their communities. The photographs represent what is happening in the participants’ lives and serve as a point for discussion about what can be done to change the present situation in regards to TB, stigma, education and related issues. These photographs and their accompanying narratives give a face and voice to TB.

http://www.tbsurvivalproject.org/        The Tuberculosis Survival Project (TBSP) was launched World TB Day 2006. The project started  to raise awareness and provide information about Tuberculosis (TB) and Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), to offer a peer support service to those on the TB treatment journey, to provide a facility whereby people can leave their own and read about each other's experience of having the disease and to provide country specific information so people can learn about what is going on in their region in regards to the disease.

http://www.tbsurvivalproject.org/features/ChuckFelton.html

Click the above link to read Chuck Felton's write-up on the TB Survival Project website:

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS SITES

://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/PBC/chp1F.html#pneumothorax  The Truth About Radiation Dangers (Breast Cancer Dangers Due To Fluoroscopy Radiation  While Taking Pneumothorax)

BOOKS ABOUT TB SANATORIUM EXPERIENCES


"A Child of Sanitariums" by Gloria Paris.  In the 1930's at age 5, Gloria was diagnosed with skeletal TB and went through treatment and surgeries until she was discharged at age 14. 


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