San Antonio Tent Colony started by couple in 1905 in Alamo Heights, then moved to Prospect Hill in 1908.
First of two columns I’m wondering if you can give me any information about the TB cottages on Zarzamora . I’m acquainted with a Filipino nurse who said she and 32 others were recruited by Lutherans in the Philippines and lived in the TB cottages on Zarzamora Street from 1983 to 1985. I’ve been in San Antonio since 1970 and never heard of that.
Fraternal organization ran TB hospital Until effective drug therapies were developed in the mid-20th century, there wasn’t much that could be done for those known to be infected. Treatment ranged from useless and possibly harmful patent medicines to spending time in a sanatorium — a medically supervised facility where TB patients could be isolated while resting and eating good food. If that doesn’t sound like much, the rest of the treatment was mostly sunlight and fresh air.
Summer polio epidemics shut down the city In addition, as patients needed more care and their funds dwindled, climatotherapy could have an adverse affect on patients’ health. “Countless patients left the comforts of a good home and came to Southwest Texas,” wrote P.I. Nixon, M.D., in “A Century of Medicine in San Antonio” .
Urrutia estate first planned as hospital site Each tent/house looked like the snack shack at an amateur ball field, made of “a combination of wood and canvas, which makes them impervious to rain and dampness, yet allowing the sun to penetrate and diffuse its rays in every part of the living room.” Situated on a hill “150 feet above the city proper,” the location boasted “no dust the purest of air, laden with the breath of health and the odor of laurel blossoms.
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