Whooping Cough Quarantine Sign - McPherson County Health Department
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: user
content: Pierson, Weir
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Yellow cardboard sign with black print. "WHOOPING / COUGH / Minimum quarantine period is six weeks. All members of the household, except those who / have previously had the disease, included. No person 14 years of age or under will be / permitted to attend school, church, or any other public gathering until 14 days after / exposure.--Chapter 205, Statutes 1917. / McPherson County Health Department"
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kansas, McPherson
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: In Memory of Dr. and Mrs. Weir Pierson from their children
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.3021.08
label: nonaccession number
content: 2013.3021
label: catalog number
content: 2013.3021.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quarantine sign, pertussis
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 13 7/8 in; 27.94 cm x 35.2425 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27.9 cm x 35.4 cm; 10 31/32 in x 13 15/16 in