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Levels of the Main Sanatorium Building (Built in 1926)
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Levels of the Main Sanatorium Building (Built in 1926)
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The Underground Tunnel aka.. The Body Chute
WHS / WGC Timeline of Events
Misc. Facts about Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Louisville, KY TB Death Rates
Patients of W.H.S. / W.G.C.
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Reference on each floor of the main building that still stands today.

1st Floor:
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* Lobby
* Solarium & patient rooms
* Offices
* Medical labs
* X-ray & dark room
* One nurse's station
* Salon / Barber Shop
* Dentist
* North wing contained access to the beginning of what is now known as the body chute.
* Library
* Breaker & transformer rooms
* Cold rooms for meat & other food storage
* Old electric / stone / water potato pealer is still present on this floor. (It's not a meat grinder as many believe it to be.)
* Small morgue
* Maintenance offices
  -Maintenance fact... the main maintenance office has a light indication system that would let workers know if a cooler or transformer went out and needed repair.

2nd Floor:
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* North wing contained the kitchen. The kitchen had the capacity and equipment to easily take care of 500 people, with a ventilation system that could completely change the air tempature every 3 minutes.
* North wing also contained the Bakery & the dining rooms. The main dining room had the capacity to seat 328 employees and/or patients at one sitting. The room could be expanded to seat 448 people.
(An average of 2,100 meals served daily.)
* One minor surgery / Treatment Room
* Solarium & patient rooms
* One kitchenette
* One dinette
* Chapel
* Two nurses stations

3rd Floor:
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* One minor surgery / Treatment Room
* Solarium & patient rooms
* One kitchenette
* One dinette
* Two nurses stations
* Occupational therapy (Shown on a video made about TB)

4th Floor:
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* Major surgery
* Recovery rooms
* Waiting room
* One minor surgery / Treatment Room
* Solarium & patient rooms
* One kitchenette
* One dinette
* Two nurses stations  

5th Floor:
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* The 5th floor was reserved for the heliotherapy department, where those suffering from TB of the bone were treated with sunlight. (1926)
* Access to elevator maintenance was in what is now known as the "Belltower".
* Children had a roof top swing set.
* One nurses station
* One kitchenette

Basement:
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* Crawl spaces for pipe maintenance
* Elevator maintenance
* Access for laundry building
* Unidentified room contains a fire door with fans in the windows to circulate the air. Also in this room are low lying tables that line each wall.

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