Scrapbooks of clippings on diseases and work of the U.S. Public Health Service, 1876-1914.

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Scrapbooks of clippings on diseases and work of the U.S. Public Health Service, 1876-1914.

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Clippings pertain to research and quarantine relating to cholera, plague, typhus, yellow fever and other diseases. Much of the material refers to the U.S. Public Health Service for the years Walter Wyman was surgeon general. Contents: v.1, 10/1876-12/1880; v.2, 6/1887-1889; v.3, 2/1892-9/1892; v.4, 12/1892-4/1893; v.5, 4/1893-5/1893; v.6, 3/1901-1906; v.7, 9/1909-3/1911; v.8, 2/1911-11/1911; v.9, 3/1911-2/1912; v.10, 2/1912-3/1914.

2.1 linear ft. (5 boxes)

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United States. Public Health Service

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