|Title||Patients and nurse at Firland Sanatorium, Seattle, 1950
| |Caption||Firland Sanatorium, Seattle's municipal tuberculosis
hospital, was built in 1911 to treat patients infected with TB,
the leading cause of death in Seattle at the time. Originally
called the Henry Sanatorium after leading founder Horace C.
Henry, Firland was located 12 miles north of Seattle on a
34-acre campus with open-air cottages for its patients. In 1943
King County assumed responsibility for Firland, and in 1947,
with demand for beds exceeding Firland's capacity, patients from
Firland and the former King County tuberculosis sanatoria,
Morningside and Meadows, were moved to a former Naval Hospital
at 150th Street and 15th Avenue NE. While this facility was able
to accommodate more patients, life in its crowded, impersonal
barracks was quite different from the original Firland's
restful, secluded wooded campus. By the 1950s antibiotic therapy
greatly reduced the severity of the disease. In 1973 Firland was
closed and TB patients we