Definition of "sanitariums" []

• Plural form of sanitarium. (noun)

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• "Until the 1960's at least, mental health care basically consisted of isolating individuals from society - in sanitariums which had worse track records of abuse and inmate conditions than many prisons."
• "He cited the example of TB where sick people used to be kept for long periods of time in sanitariums at enormous expense but that the drugs that cured TB were incredibly cheap and worked very rapidly."
• "The author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, he had been virtually an invalid for the last three years and most of his recent writing had been done in sanitariums to which his illness forced him to retreat."