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...Skid Row floaters are a primary source of tuberculosis infection, reported the A.M.A. Journal. An eleven-month survey of transients at the Minneapolis Salvation Army Men's Social Service Center revealed a TB rate 55 times greater than the city average. Fatigue, crowded sleeping quarters (in fleabag hotels and charitable institutions), and uncleanliness help make the hoboes TB-prone. Moreover by taking temporary jobs as cooks' helpers and dishwashers, they spread the disease...
...with tragedies. From dawn to dusk, Felicité slaves for the Aubain family, all of whom take her toil for granted. She loves her young nephew like a son, but he dies at sea. Desolate, she clings to the delicate Aubain daughter only to see the girl die of TB. Felicité swaddles her grief in piety and finds a pet in a green parrot. After a few years the parrot dies too, and Felicité has it stuffed. Time robs the old lady of her hearing, dims her eyesight and addles her mind, so that sometimes she kneels...
Nora Byrne is a girl with a past. Her mother and sister have died of TB. One young man has already jilted her over her "weak stock." Fearful of rousing the peasant horror of TB in the small Irish town to which she has come as a teacher, Nora resolves to tell no one her secret...
Before long Peter is putting in a good word for himself. At 40, he lives with a devoted spinster sister, who intends to hang onto her bachelor brother for dear life, and for life. Tired of fencing with her own love, Nora tells Peter about the TB jinx, and he waves it aside to propose...
...ruddy-faced, curly-haired visitor. As he kneels at her side, she instinctively knows that he once made love to her on the chaise longue. A more terrible parallel occurs when she starts spitting blood into her handkerchief and realizes that as Milly, she will die of TB...