Seattle Jews establish an auxiliary of the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society in 1920 and elect Mrs. Joseph Silver president. (Consumptive was the term used for a person infected with tuberculosis.)
The Jewish Consumptives Relief Society raised funds for the society's tuberculosis sanitarium in Denver, Colorado. Initially supported by Eastern European Jews, the sanitarium opened in 1904 and admitted patients, regardless of race or religion, free of charge.
In 1954 the society changed its name to Seattle Auxiliary, American Medical Center at Denver.
Sources:
"Seattle's Share," Muriel Mosler Papers (Acquisition 2015-7), Box 1/1, Manuscripts and University Archives, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle; Jeannie Abrams, "Chasing the Cure in Colorado," cited in Jews of the American West (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991).
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