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Author Troesken, Werner, 1963-

Title Water, race, and disease / Werner Troesken.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.1089 T843W    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Waterborne Diseases -- Sewers: When, Where, and to What Effect? -- Typhoid Mary Meets Jim Crow: Stories from Memphis, Savannah, and Jacksonville -- The Exception That Proves the Rule: Shaw, Mississippi -- Water Filtration: Who Benefitted and Why -- Verification -- Further Tests -- The Negro Mortality Project.
Subject African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- History.
Waterborne infection -- Prevention -- United States -- History.
Health and race -- United States -- History.
Sanitary Engineering -- history -- United States.
Black or African American -- United States.
Communicable Diseases -- ethnology -- United States.
Water Pollution -- adverse effects -- United States.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1900-1940.
ISBN 0262201488 hardback alkaline paper
9780262201483 hardback alkaline paper
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