Editing Preventorium (section)

{{Short description|Former type of health facility}}
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A '''preventorium''' was an institution or building for patients infected with [[tuberculosis]] who did not yet have an active form of the disease. Popular in the early 20th century, preventoria were designed to isolate these patients from uninfected individuals as well as patients who showed outward symptoms. Philanthropist [[Nathan Straus]] opened the first preventorium ([[Tuberculosis Preventorium for Children]]) on Preventorium Road in [[Lakewood, New Jersey]] in 1909.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Garrett Building: An Architectural Record of the Children's Preventorium Movement |url=http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/blueridgesanatorium/preventorium.html |date=4 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120204085814/http://www.faculty.virginia.edu/blueridgesanatorium/preventorium.html |archive-date=2012-02-04 }}</ref>