Whooping Cough - Children - Except Those of This Household with the Health Officer's Permit - Must Not Enter or Leave These Premises - Donora, PA
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930s
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pink cardboard sign with black text reading, "WHOOPING COUGH- Children--except those of this household with the Health Officer's permit--must not enter or leave these premises. No person other than those authorized by the Board of Health shall remove this placard. Any person or persons defacing, covering up, or destroying this placard render themselves liable to the penalties of the law. Act of the General Assembly approved June 28, 1923, provides that anyone violating the provisions of this Act, upon conviction thereof may be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $100.00, to be paid to the use of said county, and costs of prosecution, or to be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than ten days or more than thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court.' By order of the Board of Health. Herman Lang, Health Officer, Donora, Pa. " with lines to write the date posted.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Donora
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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: Whooping Cough
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.3079.08
label: nonaccession number
content: 2005.3079
label: catalog number
content: 2005.3079.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quarantine sign, pertussis
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.6 cm x 25.3 cm; 6 15/16 in x 9 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 6 7/8 in; 25.4 cm x 17.4625 cm