[TB sanitorium and preventorium]
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| Description | (Producer) This silent footage shows not only tuberculosis patients but also healthy children being institutionalized to prevent them from contracting tuberculosis and other diseases. The film opens with aerial shots in 1926 of the South Mountain Restoration Center in South Mountain, Pennsylvania including the tuberculosis hospital, children's hospital, patient huts, open air pavilions for patient sun bathing, staff golf course, and patient burial ground. It also shows close up exterior shots of huts, hospital, chapel, patient store (interior as well), nurses home, and the burning of the auditorium. The film documents therapies such as adult tuberculosis patients sun bathing in skimpy clothing on the floor of a deck with hospital attendants monitoring their behavior. Another therapy shown includes patients sitting with their mouths open, holding small mirrors to reflect the sunlight into their mouths. Well but undernourished children (called "Fresh Air Kids") who come to the Cent |
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