Preventorium: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
imported>Citation bot Alter: title, url. URLs might have been anonymized. Add: archive-date, archive-url. Removed parameters. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Josve05a | Linked from User:Josve05a/cite/wayback | #UCB_webform_linked 82/1221 |
imported>AtlasReviewer No edit summary |
||
| (One intermediate revision by one other user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Short description|Former type of health facility}} | {{Short description|Former type of health facility}} | ||
<!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Preventorium.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Blue Ridge Preventorium opened in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]] in 1926.]] --> | <!-- Unsourced image removed: [[Image:Preventorium.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The Blue Ridge Preventorium opened in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]] in 1926.]] --> | ||
[[File:Andernos-les-Bains_-_Préventorium_1.jpg | thumb | right]] | |||
A '''preventorium''' was an institution or building for patients infected with [[tuberculosis]] who did not yet have an active form of the disease. Popular in the early 20th century, preventoria were designed to isolate these patients from uninfected individuals as well as patients who showed outward symptoms. Philanthropist [[Nathan Straus]] opened the first preventorium ([[Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children]]) on Preventorium Road in [[Lakewood, New Jersey]] in 1909.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Garrett Building: An Architectural Record of the Children's Preventorium Movement |url=http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/blueridgesanatorium/preventorium.html |date=4 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204085814/http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/blueridgesanatorium/preventorium.html |archive-date=2012-02-04 }}</ref> | A '''preventorium''' was an institution or building for patients infected with [[tuberculosis]] who did not yet have an active form of the disease. Popular in the early 20th century, preventoria were designed to isolate these patients from uninfected individuals as well as patients who showed outward symptoms. Philanthropist [[Nathan Straus]] opened the first preventorium ([[Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children]]) on Preventorium Road in [[Lakewood, New Jersey]] in 1909.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Garrett Building: An Architectural Record of the Children's Preventorium Movement |url=http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/blueridgesanatorium/preventorium.html |date=4 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204085814/http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/blueridgesanatorium/preventorium.html |archive-date=2012-02-04 }}</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Pest house]] | |||
* [[Quarantine]] | |||
* [[Sanatorium]] | * [[Sanatorium]] | ||
| Line 13: | Line 16: | ||
[[Category:Tuberculosis]] | [[Category:Tuberculosis]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Isolation (health care)]] | ||
[[Category:Lakewood Township, New Jersey]] | [[Category:Lakewood Township, New Jersey]] | ||
[[Category:Quarantine]] | |||
{{treatment-stub}} | {{treatment-stub}} | ||
Latest revision as of 05:01, 18 December 2025
A preventorium was an institution or building for patients infected with tuberculosis who did not yet have an active form of the disease. Popular in the early 20th century, preventoria were designed to isolate these patients from uninfected individuals as well as patients who showed outward symptoms. Philanthropist Nathan Straus opened the first preventorium (Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children) on Preventorium Road in Lakewood, New Jersey in 1909.[1]
See also
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
- The Garrett Building: An Architectural Record of the Children’s Preventorium Movement, Rebecca Synder, University of Virginia.