Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague | Lost LA | Season 6, Episode 5 | PBS SoCal

Archives reveal the “forgotten plague” that shaped Southern California. In this episode, Lost LA host Nathan Masters explores the way California’s fresh air and sunshine drew consumptives to local sanatoriums, as well as the stark realities of life as a tuberculosis patient.
Featured interviews include: USC’s William Deverell, the Los Angeles Times’ Patt Morrison, and infectious disease specialist Dr. Brenda Jones.
Lost LA's Season 6 Episode 5, ""Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague,"" premieres on KZbin January 30, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. PT. Click above to set a reminder.
01:00:00:00-01:01:27:05 - Introduction
01:01:27:05-01:08:12:19 - Patt Morrison and Sanatorium Postcards
01:08:12:19-01:15:34:01 - Olive View Archives at USC Libraries
01:15:34:22-01:21:11:09 - The History of Barlow Respiratory Hospital
01:21:11:20-01:25:28:00 - Treasures from the Barlow Archive
01:25:28:00-01:26:06:14- Conclusion
01:26:06:14- 01:26:47:22- Credits
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[@CATDRL2]

Thanks you for producing these. These are so well written, documented and narrated. Hull Hauser has past away, this is certainly a great replacement, for our generation. Certainly topics that he didn't cover and are educational to today's audiences.

[@CesarGamino]

I love watching this show. Please keep producing these!

[@misacruzader]

I was just about to comment about the sanitarium in Chavez Ravine right when the episode began to speak about it! I love Los Angeles history, it's so rich. Maybe it's because California became established in a time when technology was advancing so rapidly, there was a sense that if things weren't recorded they would be lost forever. There's something precious about the memories people tie to Los Angeles. As a young Angeleno, my parents were always shwoing me episodes of California's Gold with Huell Howser and taking me to all the great museums and cultural centers around LA.

[@kplante7881]

Interesting topic. Thanks for sharing…!

[@williamhiles7404]

This is interesting to see. In the Imperial Valley there is an old sanitarium about 5 miles or so east of Holtville. It was for TB. I don't know if it's still there, this was 50 years ago, and it was abandoned and dilapitating then. It had warning signs all around it stating what it was and to stay away. Yet numerous times driving by in my work, I would see people, curious I guess, walking through the remains. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

[@marykrugerud6383]

An excellent program. However, it perpetuates the confusion of sanitarium and sanatorium. TB patients were the pariahs among people with infectious diseases. The American and Canadian TB associations coined the word sanatorium to identify TB hospitals as being different from sanitariums that catered to people with other infectious diseases or those that were health spas. Dr. Wilmer wrote Huber the Tuber after his stay at Glen Lake Sanatorium in Minnesota. Glen Lake, like Olive View, had its extensive records and photos rescued by an historical society.

[@bogwoman]

of course there are many more important things to say but what also must be said is that those red glasses are a slay

[@charlesurrea1451]

My uncle Fernando was stuffed into one of these places as a boy. He said it was horrific because he had to share quarters with the mentally ill.