Luke’s was reopened as an assisted-living facility for women. Luke’s continued to treat respiratory diseases until it closed in 1972. Luke's in the Desert was used as a tuberculosis sanitarium until 1968. Located in what is today the Feldman neighborhood, St. Adams Street) began in 1917 as a small sanitarium run by the Episcopal Church. Mary’s Hospital and Sanatorium, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Luke's in the Desert, Whitwell Hospital and Sanatorium, Desert Sanatorium, St. There are several surviving structures that were sanitariums that are currently used for other purposes: St. The hospital treated Diné (Navajo) and Hopi tuberculosis sufferers. Speedway became the Oshrin Hospital under Albert S. In 1952, the Barfield Sanatorium (Karl F. Some, like the Barfield Sanatorium changed hands but stayed open for several decades. According to Tucson City Directories many such facilities were opened only to close in a short time. The area pejoratively called Tent City, Tentville, or Lunger (Lung) Hill was located in what is now the Feldman neighborhood, bordered on the north by East Lee Street, the south by East Speedway, the east by North Park Avenue and the west by North Stone Avenue.īecause there was such a flood of tuberculosis sufferers, sanitariums (alternately sanatoriums) began to be built in Tucson to house and treat them. Impoverished tuberculars, or “lungers” as they were disparagingly called, lived on several acres of desert north of the University of Arizona. During the 1920s and 1930s the dry climate of Tucson continued to attract people suffering from the disease of tuberculosis. While physicians debated the effect of a dry climate on the health of tuberculosis sufferers, thousands of tuberculars moved to Tucson around the time of World War I. The dry climate of the Southwest has long been an attraction for visitors, many of whom become residents.
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