A school there trained 258 specialized in TB nurses between 1912 and 1954. When the hospital closed as a sanatorium in 1972, some 25,000 patients had been treated in the previous 63 years, Kagey ...

Unlike the first sanatorium patients, the good news for the last generation of Catawba’s guests and TB sufferers elsewhere was the availability of the antibiotic streptomysin to treat the disease.