Word: sanatoria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third person as "The Man Bilbo." He was sent to the State Legislature where he openly admitted taking bribes, but was acquitted by a jury. In 1916 he became Governor. In his first term he began a widely ballyhooed public building program of insane asylums, reform schools, tuberculosis sanatoria. There was the usual graft and corruption, but he managed to place his good friend Lee Maurice Russell in the Governor's chair when he retired after his four-year term...
...Psychologically they are very different from the Negro of Northern cities. They have little Race consciousness, "pitifully small cash income. . . . With few exceptions they live in areas which are unable to finance adequate tuberculosis control measures. . . . Several of the States listed make no provision whatever from State funds for sanatoria for either white or colored patients, and in most of the others such service is gravely inadequate...
Detroit, which "has no waiting list for sanatorium treatment. Patients either white or colored are admitted without delay. . . . An unusual development is the existence of several small hospitals and sanatoria for Negroes with tuberculosis owned and operated by Negro physicians, and staffed by Negro physicians and nurses...
Telephones rang in the sanatoria and hospitals of Tucson, Ariz, last week. St. Mary's Hospital was calling: "Have you an extra oxygen tent? We have a 12-year-old boy here who's failing. . . . Operation for mastoid.'' Not one extra tent was there in all the dozen institutions. Patten Levings, son of the city editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald & Express, would have to die for lack of oxygen-rich...