Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (U.S.)
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Heliotherapy at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1922-1930
Male patients undergoing heliotherapy on the verandahs of the Medical Building at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.
Patients Undergoing Heliotherapy at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1922-1930
Patients Undergoing Heliotherapy at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1920-1940
Patients Undergoing Heliotherapy at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1920-1940
Patients lay in beds pushed out on the porches of the New York Building of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society for sun heliotherapy treatment for tuberculosis. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.