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Rosenkratz, Alfred

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“…In textile towns such as Lowell and Lawrence, they fought to switch water supplies from the polluted Merrimack River to local wells, while the towns of Chicopee and Holyoke underwent similar campaigns to prevent sewage being dumped in the water supplies. The water-born bacteria were connected with the high death rates from certain water-born diseases, particularly typhoid 46. This campaign was transferred to public places, as ‘knowledgeable’ reformers posted circulars in public places and factories to educate the public about unhygienic private behaviors, including washing, spitting and kissing 47.…”

Section: Massachusetts 1880–1918: the Success Of Urban Public Responmentioning

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‘Stop kissing and steaming!’: tuberculosis and the occupational health movement in Massachusetts and Lancashire, 1870–1918

Greenlees

2005

Urban History

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Historians have argued that American social welfare reformers looked to Europe for examples of successful programmes. This article provides a counter-case where a progressive American state, Massachusetts, developed public health reforms prior to their British counterparts. Social concerns about reducing cases of tuberculosis in Massachusetts' cotton manufacturing cities led to the transference of the public health discourse from the urban living environment to the workplace. This same relationship could have been applied within the Lancashire industry. Instead, the urban public health discourse focused on living conditions. In both countries, local and state political structures influenced health campaigners' actions.

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Section: Massachusetts 1880–1918: the Success Of Urban Public Responmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Stop kissing and steaming!’: tuberculosis and the occupational health movement in Massachusetts and Lancashire, 1870–1918

Greenlees

2005

Urban History

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North America

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‘Stop kissing and steaming!’: tuberculosis and the occupational health movement in Massachusetts and Lancashire, 1870–1918

‘Stop kissing and steaming!’: tuberculosis and the occupational health movement in Massachusetts and Lancashire, 1870–1918

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