Glenn Dale Hospital was located in Prince Georges County in Maryland, USA and was one of the most important public health institutions in the Washington DC area. It was built in the 1930s and served primarily as a tuberculosis sanatorium, housing adults and children in separate buildings. In total there were 23 buildings, two of which were used for treatment. Other buildings included those used as patient dormitories, nurses residences, laundry, seclusion rooms, chapels and morgues. The buildings are connected by a series of underground tunnels, a common feature of such sanatoriums.
The Glenn Dale Hospital campus was located in the Glenn Dale area of Maryland, 13 miles (4.8km) from Washington DC in the open countryside, believed to be beneficial for treatment of tuberculosis. The hospital buildings featured terraces, widely used to move beds outside as it was thought fresh air and sunlight were helpful in the treatment of the disease. A vaccine was discovered in the 1940s and with the quickly declining number of tuberculosis cases, it was decided to open the hospital up to the treatment of other conditions. It served as a home for the criminally insane right up until its eventual closure.
A fire inspection of the building in 1976 was pretty damning. Issues relating to fire escapes, laundry chutes, cramped living quarters and unsafe materials violated health and safety codes. Lead paint and asbestos were of particular concern. The estimated cost of bringing the building up to standard was $23 million and so it was decided to wind down operations. 370 patients were resident in the facility at the time and that number continued to reduce until Glenn Dale Hospital was finally closed in 1981.
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