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Approximately 150 patients were resident at any given time during the year. That year, 356 patients were treated at Saranac Lake. Indeed, it was one of the most famous tuberculosis hospitals in the world at the time of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

After his death in 1915, the sanatorium that bore his name continued with great clinical distinction. The cold air treatment appeared to have worked and inspired the physician to establish a sanatorium in the hope that other tuberculosis sufferers might benefit. Trudeau ventured to the area in an attempt to regain strength and health. Edward Trudeau’s tuberculosis sanatorium was located on the shores of Saranac Lake in the Adirondack Mountain Range of upstate New York. NPI Implemented: A de facto protective sequestration existed isolation as practiced at the time for ill TB patients.ĭr.Geographical Considerations: The Trudeau Sanatorium was located deep in the Adirondack Mountains access was difficult even during the warm-weather months.Population: 356 patients admitted in 1918 259 discharged average daily patient census of 150.Type of Site: Logging town in upstate New York.We identified the Trudeau as a provisional escape community, but the amount of information on the sanatorium during the 1918–1920 influenza epidemic is rather scant. Unlike WPIB, however, Trudeau was also geographically isolated, located as it was in the tiny village of Saranac Lake, NY. Like the Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Blind, the Trudeau Sanatorium-which treated tuberculosis patients-was a naturally isolated facility. Postcard of the Trudeau Tuberculosis Sanatorium, circa 1920.