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This is a picture of my grandmother, Alma Cusac, who was in the "San" in 1950, when she was about 33 years old. She was healed and lived to be into her 80's, although there was a lot of shame about having TB and being at the state hospital.

The 1932 Infirmary was built for women only with an 80-bed capacity to care for more advanced patients and was used as a receiving ward. It replaced the wood frame pavilion, but the date of the pavilion demolition has not been been determined. In…