I was walking around hot springs, because I was touring there. And I noticed a creepy looking building that had been shut down, though some of the lights were on. And then my friend who was with me noticed it said; “bath house and sanitarium”. I was automatically creeped out because of the movie Death Tunnel. But I wanted to know, what kind of sanitarium was it? Like the kind for diseased people, or mentally ill? Any information you have on it would be nice.
Try reading this from the National Parks
http://www.nps.gov/hosp/historyculture/upload/african_americans.pdf
Sanitariums were like spa’s in the old days. A lot of people would go there to “take the waters” (not necessarily drink them, but bathe, soak, or swim in them) because they believed the mineral content of the water would help cure them of all sorts of ailments. A good example of this is Franklyn Roosevelt who would go to the spa’s in Warm Springs Georgia because he thought the warm mineral waters there would help relieve his polio. (It helped somewhat, but no way was it a ‘cure’)
http://www.nps.gov/hosp/historyculture/upload/african_americans.pdf
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Bath House & Sanitarium was just what people called them….. names given back in Pres. Roosevelt’s day
Hint the name….. Hot Springs
Native Americans Tribes discovered them and used them ……The natural springs that came up out of the ground was Hot Spring Water…..Whites found them and wanted to use them to make money…spreading the word of how good the Hot Springs were when you were in them….How the waters were Healing”……That is why this word Sanitarium~ was used…
http://www.nps.gov/hosp/historyculture/upload/african_americans.pdf
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