This strip was published until 1945. There were a very small handful of vaccines available in that time frame, but many debilitating, disfiguring, deadly, and highly contagious diseases affected children, and no vaccines existed for most of them.
Measles, mumps, rubella, pneumonia, among them, and especially the greatly feared crippler, polio.
So the avoidance of the sick was a sad but prudent defense.
The resurgence of several diseases that had been eliminated or sharply curtailed in the USA is happening today thanks to the weird and anti-scientific anti-vax hysteria.
This strip was published until 1945. There were a very small handful of vaccines available in that time frame, but many debilitating, disfiguring, deadly, and highly contagious diseases affected children, and no vaccines existed for most of them.
Measles, mumps, rubella, pneumonia, among them, and especially the greatly feared crippler, polio.
So the avoidance of the sick was a sad but prudent defense.
The resurgence of several diseases that had been eliminated or sharply curtailed in the USA is happening today thanks to the weird and anti-scientific anti-vax hysteria.