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Image of Hospital building at Firlands Sanatorium, circa 1915
1987.60.23
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Hospital building at Firlands Sanatorium, circa 1915

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In 1911, Firlands Sanatorium began accepting patients suffering from highly infectious tuberculosis (TB). The hospital's country setting in Richmond Highlands, well north of Seattle, isolated patients from the healthy populace and provided the fresh air which doctors considered essential. In 1948, Firlands housed nearly 1,050 patients. It closed in 1968 after new antibiotic treatments allowed patients to live at home.

This photographic postcard, probably made in the 1910s, shows Firlands Sanatorium, the tuberculosis hospital. In 1998, some of the old Firlands buildings can still be seen on the King's Schools campus in North Seattle.

Notes: Written on image: Hospital building - Firland sic.
ID Number: 1987.60.23
Date: Circa 1915
Creator(s): Allen & Perkins, Photographer
Physical Description: 1 photographic print (postcard) : gelatin, b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.
Additional Information: View the finding aid for this collection at https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv00866
Credit: MOHAI, Abbie Ewart Watkins Army Nurse Corps Collection, 1987.60.23
Copyright: All Rights Reserved
Subjects: Medicine and Health Care

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