Stan Johnson, my new research assistant from the East Coast (and first cousin-once removed...I think that's right), noted that a recent letter was from Kearney, not Oakland or Lincoln. He did a bit of research and found that there was a TB Hospital in Kearney, which seems to be where my great-grandmother Ruth started her treatment.
And then he found this great photo of the State Hospital for Tuberculosis. Cool, eh?
From another site he found gleaned this information about the Hospital:
"The tuberculosis hospital opened on June 30, 1912. Although the facility was opened in 1912, the patient ward for women was not completed until 1925...
At one point in America, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death. In 1930, tuberculosis killed 348 people in Nebraska alone and 101,500 people nationwide."
Thanks, Stan! You do know this is an unpaid internship?
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I welcome the "appointment" as Research Assistant, and as for the pay, the very existence of the blog, and all that it reveals, is more valuable to me than the big fat check that I know you were intending to send. SJ
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