Bubonic plague broke out in Seattle
On Oct. 1, 1907, bubonic plague broke out in Seattle when three (possibly seven) people died. Rats were…
On Oct. 1, 1907, bubonic plague broke out in Seattle when three (possibly seven) people died. Rats were…
In 1903, the New York City Department of Health opened a quarantine facility at Riverside Hospital on North…
In 1902, the Pan American Sanitary Bureau was established as the first of a series of international health…
In March 1900, Chick Gin, the Chinese proprietor of a lumberyard, died of bubonic plague in a flophouse…
In 1900, the city of San Francisco’s quarantine of Chinatown ruled discriminatory, but city health officials conducted house-to-house…
In 1893, the U.S. Congress passed the Rayner-Harris National Quarantine Act which established procedures for medical inspection of…
In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison, trying to prevent av Asiatic cholera epidemic, had Surgeon General Thomas J. Parran,…
In 1892, the port of New York imposed a 20 day quarantine on all immigrant passengers who traveled…
On Apr. 3, 1879, John B. Hamilton began service as Supervising Surgeon (later known as U.S. Surgeon General),…
In 1879, following yellow fever outbreaks, the U.S. Congress established the National Board of Health, in part to…
On Apr. 29, 1878, an Act of the U.S. Congress to Prevent the Introduction of Contagious or Infectious…
On April 18, 1866, the steamer Virginia arrived in New York from Liverpool, its passengers riddled with cholera….
In 1863, New York State’s new Quarantine Act called for a quarantine office run by a health officer…
In 1832, Asiatic cholera epidemic hit New York City with particular ferocity. Sanitary cordons, or quarantine, were the…
In 1808, the Boston Board of Health ordered that, between May and October, all ships arriving from the…
In 1799, Philadelphia (then capital of the U.S.) construct an expansive quarantine station called the Lazaretto along the…
In 1738, the New York City Council established a quarantine anchorage off Bedloe’s Island, now home to the…
On Jun. 26, 1721, smallpox broke out in Boston, threatening to devastate the City. Zabdiel Boylston Adams, a…
On May 25, 1720, the Great Plague of Marseille began with the arrival of the Grand St Antoine…
In 1712, a plague epidemic around the Baltic Sea led England to pass the Quarantine Act that required…
In 1697, a Massachusetts statute stipulated that all individuals suffering from plague, smallpox, and other infectious diseases must…
In 1666, the city of Frankfurt, Germany issued a decree prohibiting people living in plague-infected houses from visiting…
In 1665 a tailor from Eyam ordered a box of materials relating to his trade from London, that…
In 1664, Russia officials organized quarantines to prevent the spread of the plague and prohibited entry into Moscow…
In 1663, the English monarchy issued royal decrees calling for the establishment of permanent quarantines for people infected…
In 1663, the English enacted a quarantine on all ships bound for London requiring each to pause at…
In 1663, during a smallpox epidemic in New York City, the General Assembly passed a law forbidding people…
In 1656, after a plague epidemic kills 100,000 people in Naples, Rome began inspecting all incoming ships and…
In 1647, Boston officials enacted an ordinance requiring all arriving ships to stop at the harbor entrance or…
In 1521, the first maritime quarantine opened in Marseilles, France. The quarantine system in Marseille lasted from 1620…