Karen: I notice you lived in Red Wing Minnesota. My mother was born there in 1922, Her parents (Latzels) arrived there in 1912 from Baranya Austria Hungary; after 1st arriving in Milwaukee. Since I have been doing Genealogy I was wondering why did the go there. Was in because of cheap land or did others from Austria come first. Audrey (Friesner) Burger 34920 Pabst Road Oconomowoc, Wi 53066 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 5:30 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 120 > > I recall that infant mortality was very high in the first half of the > Nineteenth Century. > Only 50% of babies survived to age 2 and then another 50% died before age > 10. > > > > > > When I was a child in Bischofteinitz in the 1940's it > was very common that poor children at my age died from diphtheria, > scarlet > fever or amoebic dysentery etc. as they did for centuries, and that the > school classes thinned out as time went on. > > > > > > > > As for Impetigo, I had it, too, when I was a child. I lived in Red Wing, > Minnesota, > > and I don't know how I caught it along with my sister . I don't recall > > that it was very serious. We each had an infected underarm "rash" that my > very-vigilant mother > > thought needed a doctor's attention right away. Neither one of us got very > sick > > but we could not go to school while we had the rash. Mom must have gone > through > a gallon of Lysol to disinfect the household. > > There was a terrible epidemic of Diptheria that is described in the > history of > St. George Church in West Newton Twp. , Minnesota. The public health > nurse visited rural familes to swab the throats of children in each house. > But she > did not use a new swab for each child and she tragically spread the > disease > from child to child. The church history tells of some mothers who refused > her "help" and how their children remained uninfected. > > There are sections of some cemeteries dedicated to infants=2 > 0and small children who > died of diptheria during the early 1890s. They are buried alone because > their families did not yet have > gravesites or were too poor to buy a family site at the time. Some of the > small markers say only that > ít is an infant boy or girl. > > Karen > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 4:00 pm > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 120 > > > > > > > > > > > The infectious diseases such tuberculosis, diptheria and many enteric > diseases such Salmonella typhi etc. ran rampant in the poor districts of > Bohemia even in the 1900's. Legend has it that my grandfather > "Kaiserlicher > Obersantätsrat" Dr. med. Franz Rudofsky had tents put up to isolate the > pathogen carriers and mobilized the local Austrian Army to control some > of the > epidemics. Our family legend also says that he insisted that each poor > and > undernourished Böhmerwald family also receive one milking goat from the > government. Just like swine flu, the already compromised and weakened > persons > succumbed readily. When I was a child in Bischofteinitz in the 1940's it > was very common that poor children at my age died from diphtheria, > scarlet > fever or amoebic dysentery etc. as they did for centuries, and that the > school classes thinned out as time went on. The hordes of people fleeing > from the Russians brought impetigo with them. I also got > it. Antibiotic had > not been discovered yet. We had dozens of people living in our houses and > garages etc., all sick or near death. Except for the very few well-to-do > families these diseases decimated whole families for centuries. It was a > way of life. My grandfather, father, and several of my uncles did all > they > could to slow these epidemics down, but it seems that most of the time it > was out of their control in constant famine and war. > **************Hot Deals at Dell on Popular Laptops perfect for Back to > School > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1223105306x1201716871/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Faltfarm.mediaplex.com%2Fad%2Fck%2F12309%2D81939%2D1629%2D9) > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > > > > German-Bohemian Heritage Society web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message