Questions for Discussion

Section One: The Sampler

1. What is a sampler? Look at the samplers in Pictures One and Two. Both were made for the same reason. What was that reason?
   
   
2. Graphs make numbers into pictures so that they are easier to understand. Look at the graph "Deaths by Age in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1910." Each bar in the graph shows the number of deaths of people in different age groups. Which bar is the biggest? How old were the people in this group? The numbers on the left hand side of the graph are the percentages of deaths (or parts per hundred). What percentage of deaths does the largest bar represent? Find out how this compares with the percentage of deaths in this age group today.

Section Two: Living Conditions in the Past

3. Make a list of all the topic headings in Section Two, beginning with "Water and Sewage." Under each heading, write "Then" and "Now." Under "Then," list the things that people did in the past. Under "Now," list the things that we do now. Compare lists and talk about how things have changed.

Section Three: Nutrition and Health

4. What is a deficiency disease? Can you catch one? Why did children get rickets? What did rickets do to them? What is done to keep this from happening today?

Section Four: Infectious Diseases

5. What is an infectious disease? Make a list of all the infectious diseases you can think of. Are they spread in different ways? How do they spread from person to person?
   
   
6. Why do raw sewage and garbage help infectious diseases to spread?
   
   
7. What is the difference between raw milk and pasteurized milk? Look at Picture Four, an ad for pasteurized milk. Find the list of diseases spread by unpasteurized milk. Are any of these diseases still a problem today?