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Swatting Flies for Health: Children and Tuberculosis in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal
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Swatting Flies for Health: Children and Tuberculosis in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal
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| Abstract |
Responding to an appeal by city physicians and health reformers to destroy a prodigious disease carrier, the housefly, the Montreal Daily Star launched a contest in July 1912, offering prizes to children who collected the most dead flies. Nearly a thousand children, mostly from working-class families, participated in the three-week long “Swat the Fly” competition. The authors argue that engaging children in public health reforms was a way of combating the ignorance of one generation by arming the next. They maintain that children were active agents in public health crusades both as consumers and as advocates.
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Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine
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Vol. 36
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no. 1
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32-44
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2007
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en
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Minnett, Valerie, and Mary Anne Poutanen. “Swatting Flies for Health: Children and Tuberculosis in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal.” Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine Vol. 36, no. 1 (2007): 32–44. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/uhr/2007-v36-n1-uhr0596/1015818ar.pdf.
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