A Board of Health Doctor in a New York Tenement
date: label: date made
content: 1889-08-10
name: label: maker
content: Harper & Brothers
notes: label: Description
content: Cover illustration by W. A. Rogers in Harper's Weekly, XXXIII (Aug. 10, 1889). The print depicts a woman holding a young child in her arms while a doctor leans over to listen to the child's chest and checks the childs pulse at the wrist. The entire issue of Harper's Weekly is included, Vol. 33, No. 1703, pages 637-652. The cover illustration story appears on page 651, "The Work of the Summer Corps." The Summer Corps of the Board of Health was established in response to the high rate of infant mortality experienced in the tenement district during the hottest months of the year. About 40 doctors systematically visited the tenement families to find and treat ill children residing there.
label: Description
content: William Allen Rogers (1854-1931) was an American illustrator and political cartoonist. He worked for Harper's Weekly from 1877 to 1902.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.3056.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.3056.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1987.3056
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print, cover illustration
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 40.2 cm x 28.8 cm; 15 13/16 in x 11 11/32 in