{"id":15264,"date":"2015-08-08T15:09:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T21:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15264"},"modified":"2015-08-08T15:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T21:09:55","slug":"preservationnation-blog-tuberculosis-sanitariums-reminders-of-the-white-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15264","title":{"rendered":"PreservationNation Blog | Tuberculosis Sanitariums: Reminders of the White Plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150803_blog-photo_little-red-cottage.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15298\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150803_blog-photo_little-red-cottage-300x196.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150803_blog-photo_little-red-cottage-300x196.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150803_blog-photo_little-red-cottage-400x262.gif 400w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/150803_blog-photo_little-red-cottage.gif 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 1884, Dr. Edward Trudeau, a consumptive himself, opened the first public tuberculosis sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York. His first open-air cottage, &#8216;Little Red,&#8217; inspired the design of a number of institutions throughout the country that prescribed fresh air and sunlight as a cure for tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These initial open-air shacks progressed into well-designed pavilions and cottages, often consisting of two- or three-bedroom dormitories with private screened porches. In the 1920s and &#8217;30s, states began passing laws that required state hospitals to provide beds equal to the number of tuberculosis-related deaths in each region. Soon these simple cottages grew into expansive medical complexes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the latest post from Preservation Nation blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.preservationnation.org\/2015\/08\/06\/tuberculosis-sanitariums-reminders-of-the-white-plaque\/#.VcQCIflViko\">Tuberculosis Sanitariums: Reminders of the White Plague<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 1884, Dr. Edward Trudeau, a consumptive himself, opened the first public tuberculosis sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York. His first open-air cottage, &#8216;Little Red,&#8217; inspired the design of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[990,1040,1042,1041],"class_list":["post-15264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-historic-preservation","tag-sanitarium","tag-tb","tag-tuberculosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15302,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15264\/revisions\/15302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}