Waverly Hills Sanatorium was opened, or clinic, located in the southwest of Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, in 1910 two-story hospital to accommodate patients with tuberculosis from 40 to 50: Waverly Hills Sanatorium. In early 1900, Jefferson County, Kentucky and hit a flash of “white plague (tuberculosis). Plague proposed building a new hospital.
Although at the time, and was named the hospital in the best position for the treatment of diseases, and procedures primitive and terrible. Doctors have experimented with, and remove the devices and the use of experimental drug. Causes tuberculosis mind destroyed, and some patients to go crazy. And killed more than 6000 patients during the closed clinic. The infamous “body chute” were used to transport the body to the cemetery. Doctors believe that preventing the spread of the disease, leaving patients to see death. The hospital closed in 1962, in connection with the antibiotic called streptomycin, thereby reducing the need for such a hospital.
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