Diphtheria / Scarlet Fever - This Notice Is Posted in Compliance with Law - "Every person who shall willfully tear down, remove or deface any notice posted in compliance with law shall be fined not more than seven dollars."
date: label: date made
content: after 1902
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Rectangular white cardboard sign, double sided with one sign warning of Diphtheria and the other of Scarlet Fever. Both sides have following text, "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: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Diphtheria
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.3080.09
label: nonaccession number
content: 2003.3080
label: catalog number
content: 2005.3080.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quarantine sign, diphtheria
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.8 cm x 23.6 cm; 6 1/4 in x 9 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 23.495 cm x 15.875 cm