bitch wrote:
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> you can't really separate the two -- quarantine and the force of law
> (state). one of the guys I TAd for had been quanratined over TB as a kid.
Explain. My father was in and out of TB sans from 1934 to 1955, and TB
sans were for TB patients only -- but I don't see how "quarantine"
enters.
> He hardly found the treatment humane, particularly since, like polio, these
Well, I had polio in 1946 = again, separate hospital wards & no visitors.
Also in the 1930s I remember seeing red house signs, Quarantine -- for Scarlet Fever. It only meant no one entered or left except special personel.
> quarantines and public health scares always came along with a healthy dose
> of racializing bigotry that provided free cover to the hatred of the poor.
Probably. The TB San my father was in was, I think, all white. I believe some of my grandfather's farm workers had TB but were not being treated for it. I've never heard, in fact, of quarantine for TB, but have heard of lack of treatment and _lack_ of isolation. So I'd like to hear more.
Carrol
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> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/quarantine.html
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/mary.html
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