v Question: What were the common sickness when you were little?
Pneumonia, cold, flu, tuberculosis, measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, food poisoning, chicken pox, streap throat, polio, and the mumps. When you got Scarlet fever everyone in your household had to move out, except for your mother. Tuberculosis is when your lungs don’t work well and you have to stay in bed for a year.
v Question What were some of the cures/
There were sleeping, fluids, some drugs were okay, nutrition, and chicken soup. When my grandmother caught scarlet fever all her mother could give her was basically was chicken soup and fluids.
v Question What was/ were the causes for the diseases?
For the causes of these terrible diseases all came down to one-cause germs. These germs some times came from the littlest of people… toddlers! When they caught a cold they coughed and sneezed on there friends.
v Question What were the common ages for these sicknesses?
Pneumoina was most common to older people, tuberculosis was common to poor people, polio was common for ages baby to twenty years old, missiles , whooping cough, chicken pox, scarlet fever, mumps, and step throat were all common to two years old to about mid teen, and cold, and food poisoning were common to everyone.
Update: 2003/02/14 00:09:38
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