Online Event: Streaming on the Museum of the Grand Prairie Facebook and YouTube pages

Help us continue this special exhibit speaker series. In the period between 1880-1930 the new science of bacteriology revolutionized children’s medical care. It also produced a number of diverse and vibrant public health campaigns aimed at reducing high rates of infant and child mortality. Dr. Lynne Curry, Professor Emerita of History at Eastern Illinois University, will present this program examining local child health reform activities in the early twentieth century as a reflection of broader developments in the medical history of childhood. Be sure to visit the Museum of the Grand Prairie’s special exhibit “A History of Healing: Infectious Diseases and Community Responses to Defeat Them” to learn more about the impact of hard-hitting diseases and the effect they had on changing local healthcare systems.

This program is supported in part by Illinois Humanities.

FREE. For more info: (217) 586-2612 or pcain@ccfpd.org.