Friday, January 4, 2013

Pine Bluff Sanatorium Expands - 1913

From the Feb 20, 1913 edition of The Wicomico News

BUILDING SOME COLORED SHACKS

The Pine Bluff Sanatorium Commission of which Senator Price has recently been named a member to take the place of Dr. Brice Goldsborough, resigned, has started work erecting some outside shacks at the Sanatorium for use of colored patients. This institution is doing a great work and is providing places for incurable tuberculosis patients. It is the only place in Maryland where the incurable can be sent and it is a great boom for suffering humanity. It is the intend of the commission to erect several of these shacks and providing for more patients

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