"The year was 1947, and Ms. Allen was an unworldly 16-year-old from Detroit who had come to be trained as a pediatric nurse’s aide at Sea View, which had opened in 1913 to wage war on tuberculosis. Known as the “white plague,” the highly contagious disease killed 5.6 million people in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, when there was no direct cure."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/realestate/nurses-seaview-hospital-staten-island.html