Down in this hallway, though, you're going to go to the contagious and infectious disease hospital for diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, tuberculosis, trachoma.
For instance, in one country house that shall be nameless, do you know a case of scarlet fever was brought in with a laundry basket? Huh! Quelle horreur.
She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence, —the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment, —whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.
As cities grew and put more space between cows and people's homes, the longer Journey time allowed bacteria to grow in the milk, causing millions of people to get sick with tuberculosis, scarlet fever and typhoid fever.