Arequipa Sanatorium: Life in California's Lung Resort for Women

by Lynn Downey

As San Francisco recovered from the devastating earthquake and fire of 1906, dust and ash filled the city's stuffy factories, stores, and classrooms. Dr. Philip King Brown noticed rising tuberculosis rates among the women who worked there, and he knew there were few places where they could get affordable treatment. In 1911, with the help of wealthy society women and his wife, Helen, a prot g of philanthropist Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Brown opened...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080616395X
• ISBN13: 9780806163956
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"