Small Pox / Typhus Fever - This Notice is Posted in Compliance with Law
date: label: date made
content: after 1902
notes: label: Description
content: A doublesided quarantine sign - one side indicates the presence of typhus fever, while the other side indicates the presence of small pox. On the sign is printed:
label: Description
content: Small Pox / Typhus Fever - This Notice is Posted in Compliance with Law. "Every person who shall wilfully tear down, remove or deface any notice posted in compliance with law shall be fined not more than seven dollars." --General Statutes of Connecticut, Revision of 1902, Sec, 1173. --Town Health Officer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Antibody Initiative: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.3080.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2005.3080
label: catalog number
content: 2005.3080.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quarantine sign, typhus, small pox
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 23.495 cm x 15.875 cm