Local history: Elusive cure is breath of fresh air at Sunshine Cottage
Sunshine Cottage, the childrens ward of Springfield Lake Sanatorium (later known as Edwin Shaw Sanatorium), treated and housed children with tuberculosis from 1924 to 1943. (Akron Beacon Journal file photo)
Dr. Clarence L. Hyde, superintendent of Springfield Lake Sanatorium, and Hulda F. Schmidt, director of nursing, attend to children with tuberculosis in the early 1920s. Cots and cribs were placed on porches for children to breathe fresh air. (Akron Beacon Journal file photo)
Summit County Childrens Home nurses (from left) Carmen Innocenti, Carol Stahlman and Gladys Lundy look after babies waiting to be adopted in 1949 at Sunshine Cottage. The nursery closed a year later. (Akron Beacon Journal file photo)
