Containing and Preventing Contagious Disease: Montreal’s Protestant School Board and Tuberculosis, 1900-1947

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Containing and Preventing Contagious Disease: Montreal’s Protestant School Board and Tuberculosis, 1900-1947
Abstract
Montreal was considered the unhealthiest city in Canada at the turn of the twentieth century owing to widespread poverty, abysmal living conditions, inadequate public health, and a dependence upon private charities to provide health and welfare services. The author argues that while Montreal’s Protestant School Board assumed a pivotal role in the war on tuberculosis by early detection of consumptive pupils, by educating those in treatment, and by prevention, these initiatives were tempered by a conservative view that equated poverty with moral degeneration.
Publication
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine
Volume
Vol. 23
Issue
no. 2
Pages
401-428
Date
2006
Language
en
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Citation
Poutanen, Mary Anne. “Containing and Preventing Contagious Disease: Montreal’s Protestant School Board and Tuberculosis, 1900-1947.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la médecine Vol. 23, no. 2 (2006): 401–428. https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/cbmh.23.2.401.
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