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‘It was obviously a policy not to report them’: New research finds at least 3,000 confirmed Indian residential school deaths | National Post

23.10.13

‘It was obviously a policy not to report them’: New research finds at least 3,000 confirmed Indian residential school deaths | National Post: For decades starting in about 1910, tuberculosis was a consistent killer — in part because of widespread ignorance over how diseases were spread. “The schools were a particular breeding ground for (TB),” Maass said. “Dormitories were incubation wards.” The Spanish flu epidemic in 1918-1919 also took a devastating toll on students — and in some cases staff. For example, in one grim three-month period, the disease killed 20 children at a residential school in Spanish, Ont., the records show.


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