New York had reached 4,000 influenza cases, with 700 being schoolchildrenᅠ
By Oct. 4, 1918, physicians in New York reported 999 new influenza cases for the previous 24-hour period,…
By Oct. 4, 1918, physicians in New York reported 999 new influenza cases for the previous 24-hour period,…
On Oct. 4, 1918, New York’s board of health enacted staggered schedules for business operations throughout the city…
On Sept. 27, 2018, New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Herman Biggs issued information to New York state…
On Sept. 17, 1918, NYC’s Board of Health made influenza a reportable disease, requiring quarantine for infected patients….
On Sept. 12, 1918, following the arrival of a number of ships with influenza-infected passengers, New York Cityメs…
On Aug. 11, 1918, the first influenza epidemic cases arrived in New York City with a Norwegian vessel…
On Jun. 17, 1916, New York City experienced the first large epidemic of polio (poliomyletis), with over 9,000…
On Jun. 17, 1916, an official announcement of the existence of an epidemic polio infection was made in…
On Dec. 17, 1914. the Harrison Narcotic Act was passed by the U.S. Congress which mandated narcotic and…
In 1910, James Wood Johnson takes over the leadership of Johnsonᅠ &ᅠ Johnson, a position he held until…
In 1908, Mount Sinai’s Reuben Ottenberg first published mention of using blood test for compatibility before human blood…
On Nov. 15, 1907, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) held its first annual meeting at the…
In 1907, Dr. Sara Josephine Baker and sanitation engineer. George Soper at the New York City Department of…
In 1907, Charles R. Bard founded C. R. Bard in New York City. Bard’s first business involved importing…
In 1904, developmental biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan was appointed professor of experimental zoology at Columbia University in New…
In 1903, the New York City Department of Health opened a quarantine facility at Riverside Hospital on North…
In 1901, Johnsonᅠ &ᅠ Johnson published the first First Aid Manuals, using proven best practices from leading physicians….
In January 1901, after John D. Rockefeller Sr.’s grandson died from scarlet fever, the capitalist and philanthropist formalized…
In 1899, New York Cancer Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper West Side (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) was renamed the…
In 1898, the Gratwick Research Laboratory, now known as the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) was founded by…
In 1897, Maxwell W. Becton and Fairleigh S. Dickinson established Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) in New York,…
In 1894, Johnsonᅠ&ᅠJohnson launched maternity kits to make childbirth safer for mothers and babies. JOHNSON’Sᆴ Baby Powder goes…
In 1892, the port of New York imposed a 20 day quarantine on all immigrant passengers who traveled…
In 1888, Johnson ᅠ& ᅠJohnson published “Modern Methods of Antiseptic Wound Treatment.” The book quickly became one the…
In 1888, Johnson ᅠ& ᅠJohnson pioneered the first commercial first aid kits. The initial kits were designed to…
On Dec. 13, 1887, William McLaren Bristol and his friend, John Ripley Myers, invested $5,000 into the Clinton…
In 1887, Joseph Kinyoun, a Marine Hospita Service (MHS) physician trained in the new bacteriological methods, set up…
On Aug. 2. 1886, the U.S. Congress passed the Oleomargarine Act which among other things, directed the Secretary…
In 1884, New York Cancer Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper West Side (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) was founded by…
On Jan. 1, 1881, the Eastman Dry Plate Company (Eastman Kodak) was founded in Rochester, New York. Kodak…