The preventorium, as its name implies, was designed to stop tuberculosis among some children before it started. In this era Minnesota built many tuberculosis sanatoriums for the treatment of ...

Based on: Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970, (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine.)By Cynthia A. Connolly. 182 pp., illustrated. New Brunswick ...

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — A Study of Ten Years' Work at the Prendergast Preventorium of the Boston Tuberculosis Association. Skip to main content.