Topics for Discussion
Section One: The Sampler
- Women's work and how it has changed.
Section Two: Living Conditions in the Past
- Municipal laws that protect our right to a basic standard of living
(by-laws about housing and garbage collection).
- Provincial laws that protect our right to a basic standard of living
(the Landlord/Tenant Act, Sanitation).
Section Three: Nutrition and Health
- Eating a balanced diet. What constitutes good nutrition.
Section Four: Infectious Diseases
- Public health vaccination programs.
- Problems that develop with infectious diseases after natural disasters
(newspaper stories may be useful).
- The difference between viral and bacterial infections.
- The difference between highly communicable diseases, and those
that do not spread easily from person to person.
Section Five: Voices From the Past
- Some historians say that people were not as bothered by children's
deaths in the past, because children died so often that parents did
not become as attached to them as we do today. Discuss this idea.
Section Six: How Things Changed
- The increasing role of government in ensuring a basic standard
of living in the 20th century.
- Where that idea is headed today.
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