In December 1912 a hospital for advanced cases opened for the treatment of another 40 patients. On August 31, 1912, all tuberculosis patients from the City Hospital were relocated to temporary quarters in tents on the grounds of Waverly Hills pending the completion of a hospital for advanced cases. In the early part of 1911, the city of Louisville began to make preparations to build a new Louisville City Hospital, and the hospital commissioners decided in their plans that there would be no provision made in the new City Hospital for the admission of pulmonary tuberculosis, and the Board of Tuberculosis Hospital was given $25,000 to erect a hospital for the care of advanced cases of pulmonary tuberculosis. To try to contain the disease, a two-story wooden sanatorium was opened which consisted of an administrative/main building and two open air pavilions, each housing 20 patients, for the treatment of "early cases". There were many tuberculosis cases in Louisville at the time because of all the wetlands along the Ohio River, which were perfect for the tuberculosis bacteria. In the early 1900s, Jefferson County was severely stricken with an outbreak of tuberculosis. However, the spelling fluctuated between both spellings many times over the years. It is not known exactly when the spelling changed to exclude the second "e" and became Waverly Hills. The Board of Tuberculosis Hospital kept the name when they bought the land and opened the sanatorium. Major Hays liked the peaceful-sounding name, so he named his property Waverley Hill. Due to Miss Harris' fondness for Walter Scott's Waverley novels, she named the schoolhouse Waverley School. He started a one-room schoolhouse on Pages Lane and hired Lizzie Lee Harris as the teacher. Hays decided to open a local school for his daughters to attend. Since the new home was far away from any existing schools, Mr. The land that is known today as "Waverly Hill" was purchased by Major Thomas H. There were original plans to turn the abandoned hospital into a hotel, but that is no longer the case. The hospital closed in 1961, due to the antibiotic drug streptomycin that lowered the need for such a hospital. In the early 1900s, Jefferson County was ravaged by an outbreak of tuberculosis – known as the "White Plague" – which prompted the construction of a new hospital. It opened in 1910 as a two-story hospital to accommodate 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients. The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a former sanatorium located in the Waverly Hills neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. These maps are in dedication of my grandmother, who walked out of Waverly Hills as a survivor in 1951.U.S. If you are having lighting problems with the props in the map when in HDR, paste mat_specular 0 into your Dev Console to fix it.Īnd a very special thanks to the beta testers and the followers! This map set features three different versions of Waverly Hills.
The building may be empty, but they still roam the halls. From 1926 to 1961, thousands of patients died there. Legend tells us that it was to the point where one patient was dying every hour.
It helped, but people were still dying from this disease. In 1926, the new and improved Waverly Hills was finished. The White plague was taking over, so in 1924, they had to build an even bigger building that could handle all of the patients. So bad to the point a Tuberculosis Hospital called Waverly Hills Sanatorium was built in 1910 to try to fight back at the deadly disease. Louisville, Ky was one of the worst places where the White Plague occured.
Thousands, if not millions, fell victim to the White Plague. In the 1800's, Tuberculosis was a serious infectious bacterial disease that mainly affects the lungs.
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