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Patients Undergoing Heliotherapy at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1922-1930

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Identifier: B063.03.0035.00060
Abstract A group of patients undergoing Heliotherapy at the Medical Building of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Patients were encouraged to spend time in the sun and open air as a form of 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...
Dates: between 1922-1930

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  • Subject: Tuberculosis X
  • Subject: Sun-baths X
  • Names: Main Medical Building (Spivak, Colo.) X