PUBH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Summer Camp, Jim Crow Laws, Poor Folk
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Sewer system pump waste into rivers and lakes. Property owners had assumption they could dump anything in their lake/land. Poor folk: lived in run down structures. 1867: ny put forth ordinances to regulate. Urban slums were improvement from civil war: slavery, oppression. Jim crow laws: prevent aa from voting, disenfranchisement. Chronic stress: generational accumulation: biological impact: increased anxiety. Reliant on patent medicine due to alc kfo healthcare. Hospitals were viewed as places of death due to lack of sanitation. Highest in urban slums: most vulnerable to infectious disease. 1887: ny: required separate toilet for boys and girls. 1894: boston: found 5000 kids infected with scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough. 1837: 10 hr day for federal workers. Requires stats of number of minors: ascertain deaths. 1896: forbidden to employ children less than 12 years old. Air pollution: air quality concern for sanitary reformers related to miasmas. 1886: floors might be source of germs. Swill milk: feeding distillery residue to law.
