Quarantine - Poliomyelitis - All persons are forbidden to enter or leave these premises without the permission of the Health Officer under Penalty of the Law
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Rectangular tan cardboard sign with text, "QUARANTINE POLIOMYELITIS All persons are forbidden to enter or leave these premises without the permission of the Health Officer under Penalty of the Law. This notice is posted in compliance with the Sanitary Code of Connecticut and must not be removed with out permission of the Health Officer---Health Officer. Form D-1-Po." Text on reverse reads, "Regulation 20 of the Sanitary Code of the State of Connecticut. The local health officer upon receiving a report of a case of any of the diseases designated in this regulation shall promptly institute and maintain control during the period of communicability by the method hereinafter designated: (b) when the disease is Diphtheria, Poliomyelitis, Scarlet fever, Smallpox the apartment or premises where such disease exists shall be placarded and the affected person and attendants shall be isolated and quarantined therein."
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: Polio
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.3080.07
label: nonaccession number
content: 2005.3080
label: catalog number
content: 2005.3080.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quarantine sign, polio
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 6 in; 22.86 cm x 15.24 cm