That sounds interesting. Could you rephrase the tuberculosis thing? I'm not sure i understood it.Seems to me that pictures of that era, everyone has on their Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes; men and women nearly all wear hats. The full beards are a thing of the past for most men, and the same for the sidewalk-dragging skirts the ladies wore...a sanitary measure to combat tuberculosis.
The article above explains it pretty well, except that men, especially tobacco chewers, had a habit of spitting, sometimes on the sidewalk. The long skirts simply scooped up the germs and took them home. I can remember old signs, "No spitting on the sidewalk" and references to such prohibitions. The beards of course, were believed to harbor the germs.That sounds interesting. Could you rephrase the tuberculosis thing? I'm not sure i understood it.