Containing and preventing contagious disease: Montreal's Protestant school board and tuberculosis, 1900-1947.
In this period, Montreal was the most unhealthy city in Canada owing to widespread poverty, abysmal living conditions, inadequate public health, and a dependence upon private charities to provide health and welfare services. While Montreal's Protestant school board assumed a pivotal role in the war on tuberculosis by early identification of consumptive pupils, educating those in treatment, and prevention, these initiatives were tempered by a conservative view that equated poverty with moral degeneration. School board minutes provide a window onto commissioners' construction of health, the nature of the relationship between a school and its community, and the factors which influenced their decisions.
Poutanen
Mary Anne
MA
McGill University.
D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000266:history; D006266:Health Education / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011203:Poverty / Q000266:history; D033303:Protestantism / Q000266:history*; D011792:Quebec; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012572:School Health Services / Q000266:history*; D012574:Schools / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000266:history* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy