The first half of the last decade of the century proceeded as the previous decade i.e. regular hard farm work, children at school, women providing the warmth of a home. Zachariah was still winning in the fall fair for colts and geldings, shearing rams and of course the best fat sheep. Occasionally, he would get lucky with his Holstein bull, a ram or sow and come in first or second. His potatoes usually ran into competition but he sometimes would still win and lucked out once winning the Hubbard squash entry.
The competition was becoming harder as there were by now lots of established farms and, with a growing community, many new ones.
Perhaps the first difficulty of the new decade for the Watts was the birth and death, in the same day, of …show more content…
(West Virginia Medical Student, Vol 1, 1875)
This more virulent form of the disease is, in part, distinguished by the black membrane form across the throat as opposed to the 'normal' grey one. Usually infecting children, this black type had a higher mortality rate than the grey type. Often it was tainted milk from an infected cow that was the culprit.
The Parry Sound North Star (Feb 2, 1893) reprinted an extract from Scientific American gives a remedy:
At first indication of diphtheria in the throat of a child, make the room close, then take a tin cup, a quantity of tar and turpentine, equal parts. Then hold the cup over the fire so as to fill the air with fumes. The little patient, in inhaling the fumes, will cough and spit out all the membraneous matter and the diphtheria will pass out. The fumes of the tar and turpentine loosen the matter in the throat and thus afford the relief that has baffled the skill of the physicians.
When Parry Sound got a rash of 9 children becoming ill in 5 houses, all the schools where closed and any gathering of children was prohibited. (PS North Star, Jan. 9, 1896)
The competition was becoming harder as there were by now lots of established farms and, with a growing community, many new ones.
Perhaps the first difficulty of the new decade for the Watts was the birth and death, in the same day, of …show more content…
(West Virginia Medical Student, Vol 1, 1875)
This more virulent form of the disease is, in part, distinguished by the black membrane form across the throat as opposed to the 'normal' grey one. Usually infecting children, this black type had a higher mortality rate than the grey type. Often it was tainted milk from an infected cow that was the culprit.
The Parry Sound North Star (Feb 2, 1893) reprinted an extract from Scientific American gives a remedy:
At first indication of diphtheria in the throat of a child, make the room close, then take a tin cup, a quantity of tar and turpentine, equal parts. Then hold the cup over the fire so as to fill the air with fumes. The little patient, in inhaling the fumes, will cough and spit out all the membraneous matter and the diphtheria will pass out. The fumes of the tar and turpentine loosen the matter in the throat and thus afford the relief that has baffled the skill of the physicians.
When Parry Sound got a rash of 9 children becoming ill in 5 houses, all the schools where closed and any gathering of children was prohibited. (PS North Star, Jan. 9, 1896)