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Re: Oakdale Sanitarium

LADELLA SMITH

Posted By: Bob Hibbs (email)
Date: 11/28/2010 at 12:03:47

In Response To: Re: Oakdale Sanitarium (Max Todd)

There was no cemetery at Oakdale, to the best of my knowledge, and I have been writing local history during 20 years of retirement. Oakdale was a state-owned village on about 500 acres in rural Johnson County (Iowa) northwest of Iowa City, and now a part of Coralville. It was opened during 1908 as a residential community (for both patients and staff) to treat tuberculosis (TB). After TB became curable with drug therapy beginning in 1942, the facility eventually morphed into an alcohol dependency treatment program about 1960, and subsequently became a separate rural campus of the University of Iowa. As a TB sanatorium, it had a state-wide service area, and when deaths occurred, typically the family arranged for funeral services back home. For further data, see the entry #12 in the web link provided. Bob Hibbs

http://iagenweb.org/johnson/PostcardHibbs/0PostcardIndex.htm

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