Loading ...Imagine yourself choking. Not being able to get air in to your lungs because your throat is closing up inside from something unseen, congesting and constricting the tissues like invisible hands. Your chest feels like it’s ready to explode and your lungs feel like they are on fire. Finally, able to cough, clumps of bright red blood spew from your mouth as the inner walls of your lungs have started to disintegrate. The buzzing and dizziness that you feel in your head is from the constant fever you keep and made worse by the lack of oxygen going to your brain. Capillaries explode in your eyes due to the violent coughing spells and leave your eyes spotted with broken capillaries or a violent crimson red. Your skin has now turned a ghastly pasty white color because your body has stopped producing enough red blood cells to keep the pigment in your skin.
The Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Located in Louisville, Kentucky) began with a two-story frame building, with a hipped roof and half timbering(see photo above). Construction on this building began in 1908, and it opened on July 26, 1910. This building was only designed to safely accommodate 40-50 tuberculosis patients. Tuberculosis was a very serious disease back then in the early times before antibiotics were discovered. People who were afflicted with tuberculosis had to be isolated from the general public and placed in an area where they could rest, stay calm, and have plenty of fresh air. That is why sanatoriums were built on high hills surrounded by peaceful woods to create a serene atmosphere to help the patients recover.
Historical tip: tuberculosis was once known as “consumption”, or “white plague.”
Tuberculosis was reaching epidemic proportions among the public in Pleasure Ridge Park Kentucky. The little TB clinic was being filled with over 140 people, and it was becoming very obvious that a much larger hospital complex would have to be constructed very soon!
The massive collegiate gothic style sanatorium that you see in the above 1926 photo still stands on Waverly Hill today. This sanatorium would accomodate at least 400 patients. It was considered to be one of the most modern and well equipped facilities back in its day when it opened. Construction of this large sanatorium began in March of 1924. It opened on October 17′th of 1926 to administer patients! Waverly functioned as a tuberculosis hospital until 1961, when it was closed down to be quarantined and renovated to be opened again in 1962 as WoodHaven Medical Services. The facility remained a geriatrics center until 1980, when it was closed by the state.
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Theres this movie its called “Death Tunnel” it has that exact same sanatorium in it. Its a great horror movie and its based on actual events about The White Plague. I highly recomend it.