Sanatorium Hill

Authors

Larry Foley, University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFollow
Dale Carpenter, University of Arkansas, FayettevilleFollow

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

2001

Keywords

Tuberculosis; Sanatorium; Arkansas; Booneville

Abstract

From 1910-1972, Arkansas State law mandated that all victims of Tuberculosis (TB) be isolated in the State Sanatorium in Booneville, Arkansas. Some of them returned home free of their symptoms from Sanatorium Hill. Others died there, either of the disease or of the gruesome operations prescribed by the doctors. This documentary tells the story of patients who survived these morbid treatments, recovered from the disease of TB but unable to forget the pain, suffering and despair.

Comments

Executive Producers, Dale Carpenter, Larry Foley

Writer, Larry Foley

Narrator, Carolyn Long

Music, James Greeson

Citation

Foley, L., & Carpenter, D. (2001). Sanatorium Hill. Journalism Faculty Publications and Presentations. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jourpub/5