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….
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 Sept. 10, 1918, two hundred sick sailors were admitted to the new emergency hospital. Meanwhile, Chelsea Naval…
On Sept. 8, 1918, influenza arrived in Illinois after sailors at Great Lakes Naval Training Station fell ill….
In the summer of 1918, the swine influenza virus first appeared in western Illinois, where it caused not…
By spring 1919, Kansas City had suffered over 11,000 influenza cases and over 2,300 deaths from the epidemic,…
In 1918, It was estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected…
On Jun. 17, 1916, New York City experienced the first large epidemic of polio (poliomyletis), with over 9,000…
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 to Prevent the Introduction of Contagious or Infectious Diseases into the United…
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 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…