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Tuberculosis was the cause of one death in nine in Victoria in 1902. In May 1905, the first purpose-built public tuberculosis institution in Victoria, “The Sanatorium for Consumptives, Greenvale” opened for early stage patients who were discharged after one month if they showed no improvement.
For 1906 and 1907, the average length of stay was 74 days. On discharge, 61 per cent of patients were much improved but 14 were classed as incurable. Many simply returned home to die.
Greenvale was particularly important in providing for sufferers in “reduced circumstances,” whose nutritional and living conditions made them particularly prone to this highly contagious, deadly and much-feared disease, known colloquially as the “white death”.