Hives of Sickness
Subtitle: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City
Contributors: Museum of the City of New York (Corporate Author); David Rosner (Editor)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: March 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780813521589
Subjects: Epidemiology & medical statistics; Public health; Medical / Nursing; Epidemiology; Public Health (General); History: American; New York City; New York; Communicable diseases; Disease Outbreaks; History; New York (State)
First sentence: Most nineteenth-century New Yorkers had a clear understanding of the word epidemic.