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Smallpox Strikes New York’s House of Refuge on Randalls Island

In the spring of 1894, fear of one of America’s most dreaded diseases swept through a New York institution housing hundreds of troubled boys. What…

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Skimmed Milk Blamed for Infant Malnutrition

In the years just after World War I, milk was a daily necessity, especially for families with infants and young children. But in 1919, as…

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