All posts tagged "U.S. Public Health Service"

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  In Search of the Roosevelt Outhouse in New England

  During the Great Depression, the U.S. government built 2.3 million outhouses in rural America. They earned several nicknames, including the Roosevelt Outhouse,...

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  The 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...