Edgecliff Sanitarium early view postcard
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Edgecliff Sanitarium was built away from the main part of Spokane to help curb the spread of the highly infectious disease.
This file appears in: Edgecliff Sanitarium: The White Plague in Spokane
Edgecliff Sanitarium: The White Plague in Spokane
Tuberculosis was the most devastating disease of the 19th and 20th centuries. Isolation was the most effective public health intervention.