OMG, If This Is True.

 

The accusation is numbing. 

Two TB researchers allege that the mass deaths from tuberculosis at Canada's residential schools were no accident.

Lena Faust, a PhD student at the McGill International TB Centre in Montreal, and Courtney Heffernan, manager of the Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit at the University of Alberta, acknowledged ...that it’s unknown how many of the children whose remains were uncovered from unmarked graves in the past two months died as a result of TB.

But as early as 1907, chief medical officer of the Department of Indian Affairs Peter Henderson Bryce identified schools an ideal vector for TB transmission, going as far as to say it was “almost as if the prime conditions for the outbreak of epidemics had been deliberately created.”

...According to the Canadian Public Health Association, TB death rates in First Nations communities in the 1930s and ‘40s were 700 per 100,000, some of the highest ever recorded in a human population. But in residential schools, they were astronomical — 8,000 per 100,000 children.

As a result, Bryce recommended improvements to the school buildings and children’s diets, as well as having TB nurses on staff. The federal government of the day not only ignored Bryce’s advice, arguing that these changes were too costly, but prevented him from doing further research into conditions in residential schools and presenting his findings at academic conferences.

In his 1922 book outlining his findings, The Story of a National Crime: Being an Appeal for Justice to the Indians of Canada, Bryce blasted the feds, arguing “this trail of disease and death has gone on almost unchecked by any serious efforts on the part of the Department of Indian Affairs.”

The dates given stand as an indictment of the governments of Wilfred Laurier, Robert Borden and Mackenzie King.

Comments

  1. LorneJuly 18, 2021 at 4:59 PM

    I have read about Bryce before, Mound. His whistle-blowing ultimately forced his retirement.

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  2. TrailblazerJuly 18, 2021 at 5:23 PM

    Governments have often used those they control for experimentation .

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

    It makes you wonder who or what you vote for!!
    What are those governmental departments and individuals attitudes to the man in the street ?
    As with other issues the disconnect between "government" and the electorate is beyond comprehension.
    What you see is not what you get!

    TB


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