According to the Daily Mail, driving south of Sydney for an hour and a half, there are bushes and more than 2000 dead asleep: they were former infirmary patients of the last century and have been forgotten by the world.
The land is now an abandoned graveyard, inaccessible on foot, strewn with broken branches, bushes, overshadowed by crowns, invisible at all.
At the turn of the century, tuberculosis-also known as expendable disease or white plague-swept the emerging federal country.
There was no cure at the time, and severely infected patients were "quarantined" in sanitariums.
"isolation" is actually going to die.
The sanatorium is only an hour-and-a-half drive from Sydney, with 2000 dead buried in the ground
Interior chart of sanatorium
The nursing home opened in 1909 with 164 beds surrounded by bushes. Patients are usually forced into the company of fresh air and nature.
The nursing home, called Waterfall Sanatorium, is on the edge of the small town of Helensburg, about 60 kilometers south of Sydney.
The main building of the sanatorium, which opened in 1909, has 180 male venereal disease beds and is deliberately isolated from the bushes.
By 1912, the nursing home had expanded new beds for 120 female venereal disease people, according to new state records.
Because of the overcrowding, emergency beds are often placed on the balcony.
Patients are often coerced here with so-called fresh air and nature, which doctors say will help cure the disease.
By the 1950s, about 2000 patients were buried in cemeteries near sanatoriums. During peak hours, 1 patient is buried every 3 to 6 days
The waterfall sanatorium is on the edge of the small town of Helensburgh, about 60 kilometers south of Sydney
Because of overcrowding, emergency beds were placed in the hallway (pictured)
Patients are socially excluded, abandoned by their families, and quarantined because of their highly contagious nature.
Waterfall sanatorium is the only place in the state dedicated to tuberculosis patients.
People think TB patients need to stay away from the dirt and pollution of the city, so the nursing home chooses the address 1000 feet above sea level.
By the 1950s, about 2000 patients were buried in cemeteries near sanatoriums.
Archaeologist Asher Ford told Woolongong City Hall that during peak hours, one patient is buried every three to six days.
16-year-old Vincent Arena (died on Feb. 4, 1926, taking a picture of him with his family
Patients in active illness were isolated in cardboard rooms the size of garden huts (pictured) until their condition improved or died.
Only broken graves remain, accompanied by clearly identifiable tombstones.
A corner of the sanatorium
Buried patients were the youngest of three days and the oldest of 101.
Patients in active disease are isolated in cardboard rooms the size of garden shacks until their condition improves or dies.
The town legends about the patients, about the patients who crossed the bushes to run away from the railroad, about those who waved to passers-by for help, and about patients who planned to escape. Sometimes passengers throw newspapers through the windows.
The site left some remains of the grave, the tombstone is out of repair for a long time, can not be identified.
The nursing home was closed in 1958, when antibiotics and modern medicine were introduced to treat tuberculosis, and patients were transferred to public hospitals for treatment.
Illawarra City Hall decided to develop a conservation management plan to decide how to deal with the site.
Following the emergence of antibiotics and modern medicine, infirmaries were closed in 1958 and patients were transferred to public hospitals for treatment