All posts tagged "public health"
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18.4KConnecticutThe History of Epidemics in New England
The history of epidemics in New England teaches us that they arrive with terrifying swiftness. They also don’t get less lethal with...
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21.6K1ConnecticutThe Secret Killer of the Waterbury Radium Girls
Frances Splettscher was the first of the Waterbury radium girls to die. In 1921 at the age of 17, she had gone...
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22.5K14Business and LaborThe Mad Hatters of Danbury, Conn.
The 19th-century hat factories of Danbury, Conn., made physical wrecks of thousands of workers. They turned them into mad hatters with symptoms...
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25.3K2Business and LaborAnnie Jenness Miller Rescues Fashion Victims of the 1890s
Annie Jenness Miller came down from the mountains of New Hampshire with a message for the women of America: “Take off your...
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10.4K2MassachusettsBoston’s Rat Day of 1917
On Boston’s Rat Day of 1917, the upper-class women of Boston gave $1.34 for every rat carcass turned in. The numbers of...
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The 1918 Flu Epidemic Kills Thousands in New England
As World War I raged in Europe, New Englanders died at home from a foe more deadly than bullets: the 1918 flu...
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17.2K17MassachusettsThe 1730 and 1774 Marblehead Riots Against Smallpox Inoculation
In 1730, the fishing village of Marblehead, Mass., did everything it could to ward off the dread and loathsome smallpox disease then...
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5.9K18MassachusettsJudge Samuel Sewall Survives the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic
On April 14, 1721, Judge Samuel Sewall was handed a letter from a Capt. Tuthill, informing him that the ship Swan Anna...
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