TB or Not TB, That Is the Question

 

This book documents the high infant mortality rate in Canada’s fairly recent past. “A century ago approximately 1 in 6 babies Canadian babies died by age three. In the tubercular slums of the bigger cities the death rate was worse, 1 in 3.”

This is the simple explanation for those “mass graves” we have been recently hearing about. Tuberculosis was rampant on the reserves.