A Privately-Owned Approach to Treating Tuberculosis in Kentucky
In contrast to state tuberculosis hospitals, upon completion of state-operated Hazelwood Sanatorium, Waverly Hills and Jackson Hill opened to accept and treat tubercular patients. Kentucky passed the Acts of 1912 which included establishing tubercular districts throughout the state; in total, there were six districts. It was then that the anti-tuberculosis campaign took off. Continuing in the same year, the Kentucky Tuberculosis Commission began undertaking research efforts to ward off tuberculosis. In 1917 in Lexington, Fayette county opened the Blue Grass Sanatorium which would eventually become known as the Julius Marks Sanatorium. The Sanitorium contained a segregated “colored” patients building to house and treat African American patients.