Remembering the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium
NOTE: I have just launched a new website devoted to remembering the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. It’s a work in progress, eventually it will include personal accounts from patients, physicians and other staff who worked at the MTS.
To avoid publishing the same material twice, the following posts will remain on this site.
Why TB you ask. The house I grew up in, from 1961 to the 1974, faced the grounds of the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. There was a fence around the property and it was patrolled by security guards daily. That was all I knew.
Thanks to the Internet, I’ve learned much more about this institution and its place in Chicago history.
On this blog:
Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium: A Patient’s Story
Memories of the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium–Full-length version of the Epilogue post, written by Gilberto Gonzalez, M.D., who was a medical resident at the MTS in the early 1960s.
Elsewhere on the Internet:
“Remembering the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium,” by Frances Archer, Northwest Chicago Historical Society Newsletter, January 2011 issue.
NY Times article about one of the last of the original U.S. sanitariums
Asylums Project, a wikipedia forum devoted to historical and current information about asylums in the U.S. and around the world
