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Forgotten vulnerability: Generations before COVID-19, typhoid and tuberculosis killed North Dakotans
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Forgotten vulnerability: Generations before COVID-19, typhoid and tuberculosis killed North Dakotans
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Indoor toilets weren’t yet universal, and outhouses were present even in cities. “All outside toilets are inspected and cleaned at night,” the public health officer in Devils Lake wrote.
The crude sanitation practices at the time created breeding grounds for pathogens. Mayville passed an ordinance in the spring of 1919 requiring all people selling cows within city limits to be tested for tuberculosis.
The city’s public health board recommended that Mayville “take action at once to comply” with state law on garbage disposal, “but as yet little has been done by the city for garbage disposal,” the city’s health officer reported for 1918-20.
Tuberculosis pandemic had some North Dakota schools trying open air classrooms in the winter of 1922-23
Students might not complain about the hardships of online schooling during COVID-19 when they see what some Fargo children in 1922 had to do during the tuberculosis outbreak. Brrrr. 6:00 am, Dec. 20, 2020 ×
To prevent the spread of tuberculosis, many American schools, including some in North Dakota, opened all of their windows, even in the cold of winter. This is a classroom in Manhattan. Photo courtesy: Library of Congress
FARGO While millions of American children are staying healthy and safe this year through distance learning, their great- or great-great-grandparents did something a little different: They opened all the windows and wore sleeping bags to school.