Jessie L. Embry The History of Wasatch County Health care is another area in which government became increasingly involved around the turn of the century. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, residents frequently shared contagious diseases. Lethe Belle Coleman Tatge of Midway described epidemic outbreaks of diphtheria and smallpox. At first the only ways to prevent spreading disease …
Salt Lake City Had its Typhoid Mary
Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, April 1996 Salt Lake City was a hotbed for typhoid, as were many other US cities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. People would hunt, camp, picnic, and pollute near the seven mountains streams that provided the city with most of its water. Sheep and cattle would graze near the watershed, barnyards were …