[Genealib] TB sanitorium

[Craig R. Scott, CG]

Not all patients in TB sanitariums were really TB patients. At least in one
case in my family.

In the case of my own great-grandmother (the one who cheated at checkers and
had different parents on her SS-5 and her marriage certificate) she spent
several years in a private TB sanitarium instead of a mental hospital.
Obtaining the necessary diagnosis was not hard in those days, I guess. I am
sure that it is was a stigma issue. Story goes that after a while the
sanitarium just could not deal with her or herself anymore and sent her
home. I remember going with my parents as a child and picking her up from
the sanitarium and taking her to my grandparent's house. Years later my
grandmother told me how they had her placed there and all the reasons for it
(which I have unfortunately forgotten, expect the part where she did not
have TB).

C.


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