Cerebro Spinal Meningitis - These Premises Are Under State Quarantine
date: label: date made
content: after 1909
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Yellow cardboard sign with black text reading, "CEREBRO SPINAL MENINGITIS- These Premises Are Under State Quarantine. No person shall be permitted to enter, leave or take any article from this house without written permission from a legally authorized agent of the Board of Health, excepting physicians, nurses in charge of the sick, or the clergyman. Animals must not be permitted to 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 Assembly approved May 14, 1909, provided that anyone violating the provisions of this Act, upon conviction thereof may be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $10.00 or more than $100.00, to be paid to the use of said county, 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" with lines for signature and address of Health Officer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania
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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: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.3079.06
label: nonaccession number
content: 2005.3079
label: catalog number
content: 2005.3079.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quarantine sign, meningitis
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.7 cm x 25.4 cm; 6 15/16 in x 10 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 7 in; 25.4 cm x 17.78 cm