Battle Creek Sanitarium - The Great Depression

The Great Depression

After the Wall Street Crash of 1929 few previously well-to-do patients came to the sanitarium. Finances became very difficult for the "San" and the complex was put under receivership in 1933. The sanitarium stayed in business until after the beginning of WWII when the U.S. Army, needing a hospital, paid $2,341,000 and moved in.

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