Existing comment:
General Hospital No. 3, Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, ca 1864:
When Hospital No. Three was constructed on a Tennessee mountaintop, some officers objected to its inconvenient location. However, an 1864 Sanitary Commission report noted that "the atmosphere was pure, the water clean, sky clear, as if just washed, and the forest of the mountain tops and side gorgeous in their dying beauty." The report further noted that the mortality rate at Lookout Mountain (less than two percent) was "partly due, no doubt to the pure air and water, but principally to the fact that the worst cases are retained in town." |