It was closed in 1961, quarantined and remodeled, opened the next year as a nursing home, then was shut down by the state in 1980 due to abuse of patients.
Was it a TB sanitarium or a mental facility do you know?
I have read that the old TB places were a nightmare and those people weren't insane so they had to be separated from their families and know what was going on without any medication to dull the horror...
Medicine was pretty barbaric from the looks of that place... I've seen photos of cleaner prisons...even that horrible old Alcatraz didn't appear to be that bad.
TB. 60,000+ died here. They did things like remove ribs and puncture lungs. It was pretty horrible by today's standards but was the top of the line in health care at the time.