Book contents
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Global Health Histories
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Place Names
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 When Scarlet Fever Came to This Country
- 3 Colonial Motifs and Medicine
- 4 The Gold Rush and After
- 5 Infrastructures of Extraction, Sanitation, and Care
- 6 Race, Gender, and Control
- 7 Experiences of Influenza
- 8 Colonial Ecologies
- 9 A Smouldering Fire
- 10 Epilogue and Conclusions
- Appendix: Cause of Death Database
- Select Bibliography
- Index
9 - A Smouldering Fire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2023
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Global Health Histories
- When Disease Came to This Country
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Place Names
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 When Scarlet Fever Came to This Country
- 3 Colonial Motifs and Medicine
- 4 The Gold Rush and After
- 5 Infrastructures of Extraction, Sanitation, and Care
- 6 Race, Gender, and Control
- 7 Experiences of Influenza
- 8 Colonial Ecologies
- 9 A Smouldering Fire
- 10 Epilogue and Conclusions
- Appendix: Cause of Death Database
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Tuberculosis was the most devastating infectious disease of the 20th century. Spread initially in the nineteenth-century fur trade, tuberculosis rose in intensity after 1900, with its greatest impacts in the 1920s and 1930s. This chapter shows the prevalence of tuberculosis infection, its interaction with other pathogens, and the impacts of tuberculosis on children and young adults especially, including how the residential school system amplified the epidemic in the North. More than any other disease, tuberculosis changed Indigenous relationships with the land. The colonial state belatedly responded to this epidemic, relocating the sick to institutions in southern Canada. This policy of medical relocations became emblematic of Northern health history and colonialism in the decades to come.
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- When Disease Came to This CountryEpidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America, pp. 257 - 292Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023