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Current generations probably have little idea of the nature and horror of tuberculosis. Loss of energy, loss of weight and a cough are but the mild early signs of TB. In its advanced stages TB can cause bleeding and ulceration in the lungs resulting in pleurisy and the expectoration of blood and other infected material. That is the pulmonary form of the disease. The other and rarer form of the disease is miliary tuberculosis which can attack the lymph nodes, bones and joints, various organs, and the adrenal glands (the latter being Addison’s disease) and can lead to tuberculous meningitis (inflammation of the coverings of the brain and spinal cord). The treatment of pulmonary TB could be much more drastic than isolation in a sanatorium. An infected lung of a patient was often temporarily collapsed and put to rest by the induction of air between the lung and the chest wall (pneumothorax) or even permanently collapsed by the surgical removal of seven or eight ribs (thoracoplasty). Both of these procedures were employed at Ninette beginning in 1934 when the Sanatorium was supplied with an operating room.
 
Current generations probably have little idea of the nature and horror of tuberculosis. Loss of energy, loss of weight and a cough are but the mild early signs of TB. In its advanced stages TB can cause bleeding and ulceration in the lungs resulting in pleurisy and the expectoration of blood and other infected material. That is the pulmonary form of the disease. The other and rarer form of the disease is miliary tuberculosis which can attack the lymph nodes, bones and joints, various organs, and the adrenal glands (the latter being Addison’s disease) and can lead to tuberculous meningitis (inflammation of the coverings of the brain and spinal cord). The treatment of pulmonary TB could be much more drastic than isolation in a sanatorium. An infected lung of a patient was often temporarily collapsed and put to rest by the induction of air between the lung and the chest wall (pneumothorax) or even permanently collapsed by the surgical removal of seven or eight ribs (thoracoplasty). Both of these procedures were employed at Ninette beginning in 1934 when the Sanatorium was supplied with an operating room.
  
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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During the 1940s and ‘50s greatstrides 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>
  
 
The Tuberculosis Sanatorium continued to operate and provide jobs for area residents until December of 1972, when it was rather summarily closed. This, of course, caused great consternation in the village of Ninette, but, finally, after several months of worry and confusion, the San re-opened as the Pelican Lake Training Centre. The purpose of the Centre was to house and train selected mentally challenged residents of the Manitoba Development Centre in Portage la Prairie which had become very over-crowded. The people selected were those deemed to be capable of learning to care for themselves and their living quarters. The aim was to help them develop to a point where they could live in foster homes in the community.
 
The Tuberculosis Sanatorium continued to operate and provide jobs for area residents until December of 1972, when it was rather summarily closed. This, of course, caused great consternation in the village of Ninette, but, finally, after several months of worry and confusion, the San re-opened as the Pelican Lake Training Centre. The purpose of the Centre was to house and train selected mentally challenged residents of the Manitoba Development Centre in Portage la Prairie which had become very over-crowded. The people selected were those deemed to be capable of learning to care for themselves and their living quarters. The aim was to help them develop to a point where they could live in foster homes in the community.
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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.
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== Images of Ninette Sanatorium==
 
== Images of Ninette Sanatorium==

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