NYC’s Board of Health made influenza a reportable disease, requiring quarantine
On Sept. 17, 1918, NYC’s Board of Health made influenza a reportable disease, requiring quarantine for infected patients. to the list of reportable diseases.
Dr. Royal S. Copeland, the health commissionerm announced that homes with cases would be quarantined while the patient recovered, while cases in tenements would be isolated in a city hospital.
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Source: Influenza Encyclopedia, University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine
Credit: Courtesy University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine.
