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To: Moominoid who wrote (67608)	8/16/2005 1:26:16 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Moominoid Re: "epidemics" That really was a big deal and not that long ago. Especially in the south and in the summer. As most folks lived out on a farm and had minimal contact with others that slowed the spread. You had everything, typhoid, yellow fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, small pox, cholera, malaria, ect. Most of the elders in my family had survived one or more of the above mentioned contagious diseases in their childhood, and they were the lucky ones. Cities and towns were by far the more dangerous. Here you had dug wells and privys (out-houses) and not that far apart. In a southern city like Atlanta many of the men who could afford to do so sent the wife and children to a "mountain resort" for a month or two every summer, especially if there was an epidemic outbreak of any sort. The somewhat more disease prone summer season may be one reason that the south lagged behind the north in population and a reason that southern cities were generally smaller. But all of this was much less of a problem for country dwellers, fewer people and much safer drinking water and safer food. Naturally a well off farm family would be reluctant to send a child off to college in the city. And in those days they were sent off much younger, with grade school having only ten or eleven grades. Slagle