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Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Tuberculosis
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:45:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Felix:
I would be interested in TB in the 1800s, such as how they were treated, etc.

My 4th g-grandfather died at Newcastle, ME, then MA 1818 probably less
than age 30
My 3rd g-Grandfather died at Boston 1839 probably in his late 20s
My 2nd G-grandfather died at Boston 1882, probably age 43
My g-grandfather died at Boston, 1887 age about 33.
My g-grandfather's 1st cousin died Boston, 1879 I believe age 23.
All these were in my paternal grandmother's family.

I know very little about TB although I worked in close proximity with a
man who had to go to a sanitorium and I don't remember him having any
obvious symptoms.


thanks, Charles



>
> Just a quick FYI.. TB is an infection or disease caused by a germ that you
> breathe into your lungs.. two forms infection and TB Disease. IT DOESNT
> GET PASSED DOWN FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION... Please go to the tb
> program website and get better info... –  Â
> http://www.mass.gov/dph/cdc/tb/
>
> PSÂ I work in the TB program in Massachusetts.. if you need more info
> please see website...
>
> In the old days they didnt have medicine. TB can be cured if you take
> the medicine and follow the program!!!!!
>
> Lfelixthekat...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> To:
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> Sent: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 4:41 am
> Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Tuberculosis
>
>
>
>
> I don't know much about tuberculosis although it killed quite a few of my
> ncestors.
> My 5th g-grandfather fathered children in his early 60s and for 4
> enerations down that was what killed all my male ancestors. My
> randmother died of other causes.
> I always wondered if TB was a hereditary disease or why it seemed to run
> n families.
>
> hanks, Charles
>
>
>> As well as all diseases in Massachusetts - records by town.
>
>
>
> _Annual Report of the Massachusetts Board of Health - Health of towns
> p.741_
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=sSgLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA775&dq=History+of+tubercul
> osis+outbreaks++Massachusetts&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA741,M1)
>
>
>
> _http://books.google.com/books?id=sSgLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA775&dq=History+of+tuberculosis+outbreaks++Massachusetts&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA741,M1_
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=sSgLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA775&dq=History+of+tuberculosis+outbreaks++Massac
> husetts&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA741,M1)
>
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