I sent this privately but now it is to the List... Sanatoriums were Tuberculosis hospitals designed for the Quarantine, close observation, Rest and recuperation of those infected. That method of treatment has been surpassed by discoveries of modern medicine. Sanatariums (with an "a") were Mental hospitals... Those of us who spent time in TB Recuperation do not want people to think we were mentally ill... >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [GABULLOC] Re: GABULLOC-D Digest V01 #74 >Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:49:04 EDT > >In a message dated 6/22/01 7:01:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > > > > Can someone tell me what the Georgia State Sanitarium in Baldwin Co. Ga > > was? It was still operating in 1900. Is it still in operation now? > > > > Thanks > > Evelyn > >Evelyn, >Today, the same facility is known as Central State Hospital. There is also >a >prison on this campus as well. Before we had regional mental hospitals in >Georgia, there was one centralized hospital for patients needing >psychiatric >and/or other medical care and that was located in Milledgeville, GA. With >the mental health reforms that took place in the late 1960s and early >1970s, >the regional mental hospitals were built, like our Georgia Regional >Hospital >here in Savannah. Patients are now sent to the closest regional hospital >versus all of them being sent to "Milledgeville" as I most commonly here >the >facility there called. > >When a college student in 1985, I had the opportunity to accompany a social >work class there on a field trip. The facility is HUGE and now only a >shadow >of its former self in terms of the population to be found there relative to >its capacity. > >I suspect that some were there who did not need mental health care, but >also >needed medical care. One of my relatives with tuberculosis spent his last >days there in the 1940s. Perhaps there is someone who can tell us more, >but >I hope this little bit helps. > >Russell Bazemore > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com