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Dr. Michael E. Bell | Micro-Biotic Adversaries, Paranormal Folklore, and New England Vampires

My Family Thinks I'm Crazy

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Is There a Specific Mill That Caused Tuberculosis?

There were no labor laws back then. People would get what's called brown lung from just the byproducts, the whole process of making a cloth. It took a long time before labor laws were put into place to kind of relieve these conditions and also keep the children having to go into the terrible work environment.

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