3:00 PM – Temperatures and pulse are self-taken by the patients.There is no reading or writing, just a period of absolute rest. 1:30-3:30 PM – All patients rest in bed and there is no talking.Those who are permitted to have exercise take the prescribed amount. 9:30 AM – Patients rest in chairs and are privileged to read and engage in conversation with each other.7:45 AM – Patients have breakfast and arrange their beds and lockers and the rooms are cleaned up.Today the main building is gone but several outlying ones remain maintained by the Lexington Parks Department. By the early 1950s patient population as greatly decreased due to better treatment and the facility was converted into a nursing home. Leo Marks donated to upgrade buildings and equipment in the name of his father in 1924. ![]() (From the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, 24 February 1952) The name was later changed to the Julius Marks Sanatorium. A schoolroom was available for the children. The head nurse also made the same rounds once a day. The superintendent visited every room, pavilion, and patient every day. Milk was provided between meals from tuberculin-test cows. ![]() Each patient is given all he wants to eat and is encouraged to ask for a second helping should he want it. There were special diets for bed patients who were given extra food between meals if ordered by the physician. Patients are served the same food with the exception of children who get milk or cocoa instead of coffee. The Sanatorium received fiscal support by means of taxation. By 1920, nearly four hundred patients had been treated with four having died at the institution and an additional twenty-five dying after leaving the hospital against medical advice. The first patient to be admitted to Blue Grass Sanatorium was a young tubercular nurse, Miss Margaret Goins. (From the Lexington Herald, Lexington, Kentucky, 26 November 1966) Murray served nearly four decades as superintendent.
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