Events Search and Views Navigation
February 2022
February 2022 First Wednesday Talk – The Arequipa Tuberculosis Sanatorium of Fairfax: a history and a family story, with Lynn Downey
Free
As San Francisco recovered from the devastating earthquake and fire of 1906, dust and ash filled the city's stuffy factories, stores, and classrooms. Dr. Philip King Brown noticed rising tuberculosis rates among the women who worked there, and he knew there were few places where they could get affordable treatment. In 1911, with the help of wealthy society women and his wife, Helen, a protégé of philanthropist Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Brown opened the Arequipa Sanatorium in Fairfax. Downey tells this…
Find out more »