A History of Tuberculosis and Waverly Hills Sanatorium
2020 ж. 27 Шіл.
38 893 Рет қаралды
At the beginning of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was widespread, striking adults and children across lines of class and race. Drawing on the Filson’s manuscript, photograph, and architectural collections, Dr. Lynn Pohl examines how Kentuckians lived with the deadly disease, how they learned about germs and contagion, and why they sought treatment at tuberculosis sanatoria built across the state. It is a history that takes us from whiskey remedies to Louisville women’s public health work, and from Mammoth Cave to a vast complex of patient facilities at Waverly Hills Sanatorium.
Lynn Pohl received her Ph.D. in history at Indiana University and is Collections Cataloger at the Filson
I had it in 2011. I was working as a nurse an contracted it from an undiagnosed patient. Until today patients in my country get not tested for dangerous infections. It's a shame. I nearly died from it. In both lungs were large holes and i already coughed blood an destroyed lung tissue out. I had to stay 8 month in strict isolation, alone in a hospital room. It's breaking your soul and when you're finally get out, you'll never be the same. After that i had to swallow high dosed antibiotics for 2 and a half years. The side effects were horrible. I lost my hair and it took many month until they began growing again. Unfortunately i'm in retirement now. My lungs are slowly shutting down, the damage was too high. I'm only 61 year old and i lost a lot of money. The last years are very important here and my pension is much lower now. Take care if your're working in the medical field. 🍀
here in UK i have never ever come across Tb, national health service helps..
hey are you still okay and Here with us?
My Grandfather's hospital! He ran it and was Chief of Staff at Waveryly Hills from (about?) '24 - '36. My father was born there in '26, and their family lived in the little house out back.
Thank you for sharing!
Yes - Dr. Oscar Miller! I was the presenter of this Filson Historical Society talk, and there are slides toward the middle/end of the presentation with photographs of patients and employees of Waverly Hills. One is labeled "Dr. Miller's boy" and pictures a boy with adults standing behind him on the steps of the old administration building. I wonder if that boy is your father, or maybe he is an uncle of yours? My email at the Filson is lynn@filsonhistorical.org if you'd ever like to talk about your grandfather's and father's years at Waverly Hills. It would be nice for us to be able to identify more people in the photos!
@@lynnpohl3303 Hi Lynn. I will go back to the video and see. You say it's near the end? the sons, in order, are Alfred, Oscar, Emerson, Maurice and (my Dad) Milton.
@@samuelmiller7987 thank you for that information! Yes, the photo is a little after the 36:10 mark.
I heard people were tortured and miss treated and abused there is that true
I'm an American History loving Mississippian who ended up in a Waverly Hills Sanatorium wormhole....thank you so much for your post!
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My grandmother was a patient there in the '30s for about a year. She had a mild case and said she remembered it being a pleasant experience.
I wonder if my Grandfather treated your Grandmother!
@@samuelmiller7987 Possibly. I can't remember the year off the top of my head
My parents met in a sanitarium in the late 40s/early 50s in Florida - streptomycin was one of the medicines used. I tell people that if it weren't for TB, I wouldn't be here.
Coast to Coast AM with Connie Willis (5/26/2023) sent me.
Great lecture! Thank you so much for sharing this.
I am from Germany, thank you for the upload. I love old Building s with history. It s sad that I never can see them in real life.
My great grandmother & great grandfather were patients here. He died. She lived to be in her 90s. I'm excited to watch this & learn more. My grandmother's sister has the pictures from their stay. It includes nurses smiling & posing.
This has been one of the things I want to go see for a very long time… it’s on my bucket list… 😊
This is my favorite historic hospital and the Waverly Hills Sanatorium is one of those I get alot of information about the sanatorium and learn alot of stuff about the sanatorium that I didn't know about
Wonderful and very educational Speech thank you!!!!
I’m late to the party, but thank you for this fascinating video. Most google or KZhead searches focus on ghost busting, but I was more interested in the historical aspect, as well as the treatments/stats; as an RN, this is very interesting, often overlooked side of the TB crisis.
Thanks
Brazil. +1, subscribed!!
Cool vid
If I remember my history lessons correctly weren't people who had TB given no choice but to report to facilities like Waverly upon diagnosis or get into legal trouble? Please tell me if I am wrong. It seems to remind me of the leprosy colonies. If you were discovered to have it you were pulled away from family and home and forced to go to leprosy colony/ treatment center.
Yes, if you contract it, the treating physican is obligated to report the infection the health departament. If you not go to the hospital, they have the right to arrest you, to protect the rest of the population.
This is like the history of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Great info ..but the the tunnel was true and a way to ship dead bodies out
My Grandpa Marion franklin kirk died there in 1943.
My Aunt was a nurse at Waverly
What's her name?
@@AidanXres her name is Alice wright
@sharronhogan523 she must've lived so many things there..
This is like today’s covid -19 😳
Covid 19 & TB how a lot in common.
Except TB mortality rate was much higher. A lot less hope their.
It's really not, covid is like a rounda rousey and TB is like amanda nunes.
@@gorgoroth9876 yes
I suppose i should get the shots, i never even had the shots i need to get , like for instance i have never gotten the flu shot in my life, and My mom wants me to ask about the RSV shot ( I think thats what its called) but i need to pay for it. I have all my covid vacines except for this year. I am an ashmatic younger person, and i dont go out much. It really sucks having asthma especially since i seemed to have developed it right away, i think i got it from not cleaning up, from depression, i was living in 10 yrs of build up dirt and dust and possibly i exposed my self to black mold unkowingly, i really dont even know what ut was but it was almost black with s very must smell. Vacuming every week and getting rid of the dust deffinitly had helped and whatever the hell i csme across under my matress aswell as getting a new matress!, i think my throat got swollen from that and i thought my asthma would go away once i replaced my mattress and cleaned up but it never did 😢
I found the end of the shut
So sad how blacks were treated and segregated. Their suffering must have immense and loss of life much higher.