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I had to do some major "focusing" to read those, Be. (no stat. on how many had spectacles in 1915 unless I missed it). Very interesting; particularly for me as many of those facts relate to my family.
Home births: something we ought to revisit, IMO. Nurse Practitioner/Midwife friends are in great demand for their relaxed approach to births and esp. given the increasingly lethal level of resistant infections that thrive in the hospital environment (see below).
Telephones: one of my great aunts took a job with a new company called Bell Telephone just after the turn of the 20th. century. She was hired as an operator. And was gradually promoted to a very important position in the company. She was the representative who went into new territories to purchase a house for Bell (furnished it), oversaw the installation of the switchboard, hired and trained the live-in operators. My brother has a 6" section of the original transatlantic telephone cable on his desk.
Tuberculosis: Two other great aunts (sisters of the above) entered the nursing field before 1915 as the "front line" in getting control of that scourge. They had rural "rounds", routinely visiting homes to check on families; teaching basic hygiene (prevention), nutrition, and doing their best to see that overall health was promoted. They regularly delivered babies, as well. Both went on to respected positions in health care; one ran the nursing school at St. Luke's hospital in NYC, the other a nursing school in Framingham, MA.. They volunteered in WWI and the text books that were part of their training are fascinating as they predate the modern anti-biotic age.
Shortly after the death of my grandfather and stock market crash in 1929 (barely 2wks. later) they "circled the wagons" and pooled their resources to support my grandmother and her 3 children through the Depression (my aunt was 8, Mum was barely 3). They sent all 3 kids to college, too.
Home births: something we ought to revisit, IMO. Nurse Practitioner/Midwife friends are in great demand for their relaxed approach to births and esp. given the increasingly lethal level of resistant infections that thrive in the hospital environment (see below).
Telephones: one of my great aunts took a job with a new company called Bell Telephone just after the turn of the 20th. century. She was hired as an operator. And was gradually promoted to a very important position in the company. She was the representative who went into new territories to purchase a house for Bell (furnished it), oversaw the installation of the switchboard, hired and trained the live-in operators. My brother has a 6" section of the original transatlantic telephone cable on his desk.
Tuberculosis: Two other great aunts (sisters of the above) entered the nursing field before 1915 as the "front line" in getting control of that scourge. They had rural "rounds", routinely visiting homes to check on families; teaching basic hygiene (prevention), nutrition, and doing their best to see that overall health was promoted. They regularly delivered babies, as well. Both went on to respected positions in health care; one ran the nursing school at St. Luke's hospital in NYC, the other a nursing school in Framingham, MA.. They volunteered in WWI and the text books that were part of their training are fascinating as they predate the modern anti-biotic age.
Shortly after the death of my grandfather and stock market crash in 1929 (barely 2wks. later) they "circled the wagons" and pooled their resources to support my grandmother and her 3 children through the Depression (my aunt was 8, Mum was barely 3). They sent all 3 kids to college, too.
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...and you could buy a handgun, shotgun or rifle in any hardware store without a background check. LOL
There is a lot of simplicity to those times. I wonder if all of our modern advances have made people happier? Of course, the advances in creature comforts and medicine, make people much happier.
There is a lot of simplicity to those times. I wonder if all of our modern advances have made people happier? Of course, the advances in creature comforts and medicine, make people much happier.
Always be skeptical of these sorts of things!
NYC alone had 246 murders in 1915.
The good old days weren't
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NYC alone had 246 murders in 1915.
The good old days weren't
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Yup- seems insignificant, time wise, but some others seem to be just not right for 1910, either
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