 Opened as "The Life and Health Sanitarium" in the late 1920s and later renamed to Ideal Maternity Home (IMH), the unlicensed maternity home promised both maternity care for local married couples and provided private birthing and placement of children of unwed mothers.The average wage at the time was $8 a week, and mothers were charged $500 for maternity services.The business also sold babies in the black market for up to $10,000 per baby.