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During the 1940s and ‘50s great strides were made in the drug treatment approach to tuberculosis with the drugs streptomycin and isoniazid. By the 1960s TB patients were commonly treated by the administration of these drugs and the surgical removal of ulcerated lung tissue. A vaccine against TB was developed in France in 1921 but won slow acceptance. Studies in the U.S. and Britain, again during the ‘40s and ‘50s, established its effectiveness. In the 1960s and ‘70s more antitubercular drugs were developed—ethambutol and rifampicin—and the home treatment of TB by drug therapy made the sanatorium obsolete. The Sanatorium at Ninette was closed in 1972." <ref> Trivette, Tim. Manitoba History, Number 7, Spring 1984. Manitoba Historical Society. Accessed November 5th 2013.</ref> | During the 1940s and ‘50s great strides were made in the drug treatment approach to tuberculosis with the drugs streptomycin and isoniazid. By the 1960s TB patients were commonly treated by the administration of these drugs and the surgical removal of ulcerated lung tissue. A vaccine against TB was developed in France in 1921 but won slow acceptance. Studies in the U.S. and Britain, again during the ‘40s and ‘50s, established its effectiveness. In the 1960s and ‘70s more antitubercular drugs were developed—ethambutol and rifampicin—and the home treatment of TB by drug therapy made the sanatorium obsolete. The Sanatorium at Ninette was closed in 1972." <ref> Trivette, Tim. Manitoba History, Number 7, Spring 1984. Manitoba Historical Society. Accessed November 5th 2013.</ref> | ||
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Much of the campus at Ninette was demolished sometime after the closure. The original Administrative building was preserved, and several monuments were erected to the doctors, staff, and patients at the sanatorium. One monument was created in memory of those who died while being treated for tuberculosis at Ninette. The monument, unveiled August 1st 2010 in the Belmont Hillside Cemetery was developed by the Rural Municipality of Strathcona with financial support from the Province of Manitoba, The Thomas Sill Foundation, and The Killarney Foundation. | Much of the campus at Ninette was demolished sometime after the closure. The original Administrative building was preserved, and several monuments were erected to the doctors, staff, and patients at the sanatorium. One monument was created in memory of those who died while being treated for tuberculosis at Ninette. The monument, unveiled August 1st 2010 in the Belmont Hillside Cemetery was developed by the Rural Municipality of Strathcona with financial support from the Province of Manitoba, The Thomas Sill Foundation, and The Killarney Foundation. |