Hello, Someone has asked me about what "hospitals for incurable diseases" existed around 1900 in MA. I just did a Google search and found one, but it didn't open until 1960. Then I found this web page which tells an interesting story, a brief biography of Peter Bent BRIGHAM, who the hospital in Boston is named after. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809448-1,00.html (Many people know about the "Brigham & Women's Hospital" in Boston, but the above is a separate building.) I love to read "rags to riches" stories of people who are "in the news." This is the other page which came up in the search: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Camillus_Health_Center I'm finding information about these hospitals in other countries, but not too many for the US. Does anyone know of some in New England? I just changed the search-term and found a list of hospitals in MA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Massachusetts One site which comes up is some unpleasant photos of a former "TB hospital" in Hanson, MA, where the building has been abandoned for 15 years. Here is a photo which is less-unpleasant: http://www.flickr.com/photos/quietdear/2058792108/ Other sites coming up mention one in Middleton, MA, and Amesbury, MA. Here is a "Google / Book" which is an annual report for the State Dept. of Health in 1917 where one page mentions the need for more TB hospitals in MA: http://books.google.com/books?id=JdwWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA350&lpg=PA350&dq=tuberculosis+hospital,+MA%22&source=web&ots=6Neww0wmgj&sig=zBn8W16vWRQ5yeHdNsmhTyeUYmI&hl=en&ei=5JKaSf-4MqGjtgfRxfzkAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPR2,M1 There is another Google / Book which is the "Boston Medical .. Journal" of 1915: http://books.google.com/books?id=tNAEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA241-IA6&lpg=RA3-PA241-IA6&dq=tuberculosis+hospital,+MA%22&source=web&ots=UaCnsl4Gyx&sig=RsO5MLtCPECtVjmEa69rQfB5KcY&hl=en&ei=uJSaSdabN6GjtgfRxfzkAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR1,M1 Another page says "the military" has hospitals for "pulmonary disease." Lots of sites are coming up with the search-term "incurable diseases." And, it looks like www.google.com has put "millions" of books, journals, reports, "papers," etc. on-line. You could put in almost any search-term and find a publication mentioning it there. Betty (near Lowell, MA) FYI: I had surgery at the Brigham & Women's Hospital in the 1980's. But around the same time I had an opportunity to visit the "Peter Bent Brigham Hospital" and it is a very old, very unusual, and sometimes scary building.

Hi Betty, I had a great uncle who died in the Hanson TB Hospital, I wonder if anyone knows if there is a list somewhere of the patients that were at that hospital? One of the "sites" I visited was one kid talking about breaking into there, it being creepy, and them finding old CHARTS lying around! How awful. I'm hoping someone has taken care with those records, can anyone help me? Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> To: <genMassachusetts-L@rootsweb.com>; <BOSTON@rootsweb.com>; <new-england-memories@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 5:51 AM Subject: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Peter B. BRIGHAM Hospital (Incurable Diseases) > Hello, > > Someone has asked me about what "hospitals for incurable diseases" existed > around 1900 in MA. I just did a Google search and found one, but it > didn't > open until 1960. Then I found this web page which tells an interesting > story, a brief biography of Peter Bent BRIGHAM, who the hospital in Boston > is named after. > > http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,809448-1,00.html > > (Many people know about the "Brigham & Women's Hospital" in Boston, but > the > above is a separate building.) > > I love to read "rags to riches" stories of people who are "in the news." > > This is the other page which came up in the search: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Camillus_Health_Center > > I'm finding information about these hospitals in other countries, but not > too many for the US. Does anyone know of some in New England? > > I just changed the search-term and found a list of hospitals in MA: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hospitals_in_Massachusetts > > One site which comes up is some unpleasant photos of a former "TB > hospital" > in Hanson, MA, where the building has been abandoned for 15 years. Here > is a photo which is less-unpleasant: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/quietdear/2058792108/ > > Other sites coming up mention one in Middleton, MA, and Amesbury, MA. > > Here is a "Google / Book" which is an annual report for the State Dept. of > Health in 1917 where one page mentions the need for more TB hospitals in > MA: > > http://books.google.com/books?id=JdwWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA350&lpg=PA350&dq=tuberculosis+hospital,+MA%22&source=web&ots=6Neww0wmgj&sig=zBn8W16vWRQ5yeHdNsmhTyeUYmI&hl=en&ei=5JKaSf-4MqGjtgfRxfzkAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPR2,M1 > > > There is another Google / Book which is the "Boston Medical .. Journal" of > 1915: > > http://books.google.com/books?id=tNAEAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA241-IA6&lpg=RA3-PA241-IA6&dq=tuberculosis+hospital,+MA%22&source=web&ots=UaCnsl4Gyx&sig=RsO5MLtCPECtVjmEa69rQfB5KcY&hl=en&ei=uJSaSdabN6GjtgfRxfzkAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR1,M1 > > > Another page says "the military" has hospitals for "pulmonary disease." > > Lots of sites are coming up with the search-term "incurable diseases." > > And, it looks like www.google.com has put "millions" of books, > journals, reports, "papers," etc. on-line. You could put in almost any > search-term and find a publication mentioning it there. > > Betty (near Lowell, MA) > > > FYI: > > I had surgery at the Brigham & Women's Hospital in the 1980's. But > around the same time I had an opportunity to visit the "Peter Bent Brigham > Hospital" and it is a very old, very unusual, and sometimes scary > building. > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENMASSACHUSETTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.10.25/1955 - Release Date: 02/16/09 06:55:00

Hi Betty - and all Growing up near Middleton I remember well driving past the TB Sanitarium.. big building, set back from the road, and the red symbol which was used on, I think, Easter Seals on the smoke stack. Very imposing looking building! My great great grandmother died in what I believe might have been such a place in Haverhill, Mass in about 1870, although I have not had much luck finding information about it. I'll try out your links.. I can't imagine what life must have been like for these folks during those times.. Regarding the Brigham and Women's Lying-In - I believe they used to be two separate hospitals which merged maybe in the 1960s or 70s.. There were two Brighams hospitals as well, I think.. faye ---- Betty <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> wrote: > Hello, > > Someone has asked me about what "hospitals for incurable diseases" existed > around 1900 in MA. I just did a Google search and found one, but it didn't > open until 1960. Then I found this web page which tells an interesting > story, a brief biography of Peter Bent BRIGHAM, who the hospital in Boston > is named after. >