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D67206-9
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- 1952-06-05 (Creation)
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The new Mountain View Sanatorium opened in the summer of 1952 at 215 So. 36th St. The hospital was built to accomodate 163 patients with room for expansion on the fifth floor. The sanatorium cost nearly $2 million, and was the "largest single building expenditure in Pierce County history" to that date. Built specifically to care for patients with tuberculosis, 120 patients were moved into the building from the old Lakeview Sanatorium the summer it opened. The youngest patient was a three year old boy and the oldest was 80. Helping to carry the stretcher is John Schrag, on the left, who taught 33 student patients, ranging from the third grade to high school. The young boy and second stretcher bearer are unidentified. (TNT 10/5/1952)
Mountain View Sanatorium (Tacoma); Tuberculosis--Tacoma--1950-1960; Sick persons; Schrag, John;