Observation Quarantine - Board of Health
date: label: date made
content: after 1923
notes: label: Description
content: Board of Health: OBSERVATION QUARANTINE: Persons other than those of the household and those legally authorized are forbidden to enter. 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.
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: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Health & Medicine
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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: 2005.3079.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 2005.3079
label: catalog number
content: 2005.3079.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: quarantine sign
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.9 cm x 25.5 cm; 7 1/16 in x 10 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 in x 7 in; 25.4 cm x 17.78 cm