Description
Kinda creepy
Houdini's Escapes and Magic Book from 1930. Open the cover and see a stamp from " Property of Westfield State Sanatorium" which is now known as the Western Massachusetts Hospital, opened its doors in 1908 for its locals diagnosed with a very deadly disease once known as consumption and now called tuberculosis. The sanatorium was renamed the Western Massachusetts Hospital soon after it started a wing for cancer patients in the 1960s. The hospital’s current building, where it still runs as a hospital, was opened in 1937. Over the decades under its new name, it began to admit patients with many different diseases, on its way to becoming a fully developed hospital. It admitted men, women and children. With the successes of the battle against tuberculosis the hospital stopped care for those who had the disease in 1974.
It also comes with a library card so you can see who signed it out