GOT TB? Where in the World is the Sanitorium! Traditional Geocache
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GOT TB? Where in the World is the Sanitorium!
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Evergreen Park Cottage Sanatorium
In 1903, Dr. W. B. Hopkins, Cumberland, opened the first tuberculosis sanatorium in Wisconsin. He built an office and three one story frame buildings with screen sides—the men’s ward, the women’s ward and a dining hall.
Hopkins treated tuberculosis cases here in summer. He wrote of the “pure air, day and night” and a program of close medical attention, good food and restrained exercise to keep the patient “cheerful and hopeful, temperate in all things.”
Weekly rates were $15. or a patient could build a little cabin on the grounds and get medical treatment for $10 monthly. Physicians volunteered their services, among them, Dr. F. G. Johnson, lake Nebagamon.
Operating losses caused the sanatorium to be abandoned in 1905. It was a brave effort that stimulated inquiry into the treatment of tuberculosis in Wisconsin.
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