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Water, race, and disease / Werner Troesken.

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A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the effect of public water and sewer systems on African American life expectancy in the Jim Crow era. Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Americans rise dramatically? And why, when public offi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via MIT Press)
Main Author: Troesken, Werner, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Series:NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Subjects:
African Americans > Health and hygiene > History.
African Americans > Social conditions > History.
Waterborne infection > United States > Prevention > History.
Health and race > United States > History.
African Americans > Health and hygiene.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Health and race.
Waterborne infection > Prevention.
United States.
History.
Table of 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.

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