Perhaps there are still cases of catching this louse from a toilet seat (if an infected person dropped one seconds before you were unfortunate enough to sit on the seat for it to transfer to you) or you caught it in the same way you would catch an STD...genital to genital contact. 
Before any of the insecticides, you could count on house flies growing everywhere and seeing ribbons of gooey paper hanging with dead flies stuck all over. It was a nasty sight. With A/C we don't have to open so many windows and with kitchen sink disposals, we don't need garbage hanging around. Not seeing 'snow' on the TV screen is a laudable improvement with cable.
Before the advent of antibiotics, mastoid surgery used to be a frequent surgery. Acute mastoiditis was common and the treatment is a mastoidectomy. You don't see those craters behind and below the ear in anyone under forty these days.
Eating vegetables became tolerable when planes and methods of delivering produce from all parts of the world in all seasons was possible.
'In the old days' we had only canned foods when fresh was not available. This preceded freezers when we only had ice boxes. Food was never terribly cold though it was certainly better than room temperature and one had to empty a drip tray as the ice melted.Once, a family with children who wanted to see a movie had to go to a Drive-in theater. The windows had to be left open to accommodate hanging a speaker in your car.
Since many theaters were put in land near swamps rather than residential areas, you could count on being eaten alive by mosquitoes. Netflix and Blockbuster made staying home with the kiddies playing with their toys in their part of the house or in bed and Mom and Dad able to watch in relative peace. If disturbed, they now have a pause button.As I thought about all the things we put behind us, it makes the present look decidedly an improvement. We live longer in more comfort...at least those with jobs and health insurance...and recreational pursuits have no end.
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