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Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century The Great Plague of London, 1665 The Boston Smallpox Epidemic, 1721 “Pestilence” and the Printed Books of the Late 15th Century Spanish Influenza in North America, 1918–1919 Tropical Diseases and the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1904–1914 Tuberculosis in Europe and North America, 1800–1922 The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793
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Boston Overseers of the Poor RecordsEstablished by a colonial act in 1692 and incorporated in 1772, the Boston Overseers of the Poor provided relief to “deserving” persons in the form of food, fuel, medicine, and money. The Boston Overseers’ records at the Countway Library contain tickets requesting that specific Boston residents receive smallpox inoculations. The tickets are addressed to individual physicians and are signed by a member of the Overseers. Some of the tickets include ward numbers, and all of the tickets have dates between August and November 1792. Materials Digitized for the Contagion Collection
Additional Contagion ResourcesGeneral Materials: Public Health Full Collection CitationSmallpox inoculation: orders to physicians, 1792. 1.Ku.14. Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston Mass. Electronic Finding AidNo extended electronic finding aid is available. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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