One of the early boarding houses for consumptives was founded in 1882 by Emma C. Bangs, who arrived from the east with her ill daughter
The belief about a better climate/cleaner air in the southwest persisted a long time after that.
Relocating to the SW was what my great-aunt (b ~1900) did with her ill daughter (who had TB or COPD, I can't remember the details), moving from the Buffalo area to Mesa, Arizona (about 6 hours from LA) where they believed the "better air" and warm climate would be help her improve (the daughter lived for about another 10 years). Her husband had done something similar when his TB had become severe shortly after WWII, driving to a VA hospital in Tuscon but returning to Buffalo a few years later, where he died.
One of the shopping centers just west of the Denver city line is JCRS. The initials originally stood for Jewish Consumptive Relief Service, which had a center there in the early part of the 20th Century.
The belief about a better climate/cleaner air in the southwest persisted a long time after that.
Relocating to the SW was what my great-aunt (b ~1900) did with her ill daughter (who had TB or COPD, I can't remember the details), moving from the Buffalo area to Mesa, Arizona (about 6 hours from LA) where they believed the "better air" and warm climate would be help her improve (the daughter lived for about another 10 years). Her husband had done something similar when his TB had become severe shortly after WWII, driving to a VA hospital in Tuscon but returning to Buffalo a few years later, where he died.