Forget the Mayo Clinic or Johns Hopkins; El Paso was the place to be in the early 1900’s as tuberculosis ravaged Texas and the entire country.
Tuberculosis, (aka “TB”), is a serious, life threatening disease that affects the lungs and is transmitted by sneezing, coughing or even singing. It can spread quickly in crowds.
It’s treatable and, thanks to medical advances over the last century or so, not too big of a deal if caught in time and treated properly. In those cases, the odds of recovery are over 80%. That still leaves about a 20% mortality rate though so, TB is still no joke.
In The 1900’s, El Paso Offered The Best Treatment For TB.
In the early 1900’s though, doctors were still trying to figure it out and El Paso was loaded with one of the few, successful treatments they knew of at the time. Sunshine…