JCRS Project

Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Patient Records are among the holdings of the Ira M. Beck Memorial Archives; 
an archive of the Penrose Library at the University of Denver.

The Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) project is creating an online index for turn-of-the century tuberculosis patients who resided at one of two Jewish hospitals in Denver, Colorado. The majority of these patients were recent Jewish immigrants living in other North American cities that went to Denver for treatment because it was the "tuberculosis capital" of the time.

Photograph of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society campus about 1907

To learn more about this project and to search the database, click here or click on the image below.

Once you are in a within a patient file you can click on the document images to see the remarkable genealogical detail included such as city and country of birth, Jewish landsman and civic affiliations in North America, ages of children, occupation, and specifically where buried in Colorado. Many patients were born in North America, but a many were born in Russia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, France, and England.

The scope of this indexing project is to make patient names available online with basic identifying information such as age and next of kin. Approximately 10,000 names will be added to the index for the period 1904-1930. Long-term, the project team will go back and scan "Images of Patient Records Available" for every record.