In 1908 medical authorities were proud of new measures to control tuberculosis. Yet were Elm City public health officials ignoring another killer, pneumonia, which the previous year had killed nearly 12,000 people in neighboring New York? Welcome to This Day in Disease Prevention History as your host Allan Appel and co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle from the New Haven Museum take you back.
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