What diseases would someone carry who had worked in an orphanage or sanitarium in 1925?

Question

Creating a fictional character who had frequent contact with sick children, American west, 1925ish to 1935ish. Assuing she does not age, what diseases would such a woman be able to carry and transmit? I've ruled out anything bacterial as being subsequently cured by antibiotics.

Assuming aggressive treatment with antibiotics, please rule out anything that would no longer be carried in the system. I'm trying to narrow this to something she could transmit to others.

Answer 1

There's pertussis (whooping cough), malaria, venereal diseases, diphtheria, influenza, polio, scarlet fever, small pox and tuberculosis to name a few.

Answer 2

In that time frame, tuberculosis would be the biggie. It takes six months of treatment with two different drugs to cure it.
Whole sanitariums were devoted to the treatment of TB in that era.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Mhh, nobody's thought of leprosy, scabies, advanced scarlet fever...fun stuff like that...I like scarlet fever because it's dramatic. It arises from a Streptococcal infection that has gone untreated and can be fatal. I especially like how it goes after the valves in your heart. It causes stenosis, or hardening and closing of the valves making it very difficult to exert yourself at the very least and making it neigh impossible to do anything at the most...good luck with your character.

Answer 5

Polio, tuberculosis.

Answer 6

TB, Tuberculosis, Consumption (same disease).

Answer 7

Tuberculosis would be my first guess, smallpox would be the next, then malnutrition last.

Answer 8

YEAH I AGREE WITH WHAT THE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SAID T.B MORE THAN LIKELY

Answer 9

polio (summer flue), swine flue, plague (black death).