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Lazaretto : how Philadelphia used an unpopular quarantine based on disputed science to accommodate immigrants and prevent epidemics /

"This book tells the compelling story of public health efforts in 19th-century Philadelphia directed at preventing the outbreak of epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and other diseases. It is a story about quarantine set against the background of the Philadelphia Lazaretto, the first quarantin...

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Main Author: Barnes, David S., (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
Subjects and Genres:
Quarantine > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Epidemics > Prevention > History.
Immigrants > Health and hygiene > United States > History.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 19th century.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
United States.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Nation's Capital at Rock Bottom, 1793-1798
  • Righteousness and Desperation in 1799
  • A New Lazaretto, 1800-1801
  • Exodus (Again) and Compromise, 1802-1803
  • A Regime of Vigilance "to Banish from Among Us Even the Apprehension of Disease"
  • "Expedient" Measures and Rioting Redemptioners, 1804
  • A Mischievous Boy
  • "This Inhuman Traffic"
  • Fencing Off Neighborhoods
  • "Detained On Account of Her Hides"
  • "Brought to Our Shores by the Cupidity of Others"
  • The Care Cure
  • "Gross and Criminal Negligence" at the Lazaretto,1853
  • The Darkest Hour
  • Quarantine, a Political Minefield
  • The Final Days, 1888-1895
  • Afterlives.
  • The Nation's Capital at Rock Bottom, 1793-1798
  • Righteousness and Desperation, 1799
  • A New Lazaretto, 1800-1801
  • Exodus (Again) and Compromise, 1802-1803
  • A Regime of Vigilance "to Banish from Among Us Even the Apprehension of Disease"
  • "Expedient" Measures and Rioting Redemptioners, 1804
  • A Mischievous Boy, 1805
  • "This Inhuman Traffic," 1817
  • Fencing in Yellow Fever, 1820
  • "Detained On Account of Her Hides"
  • "Brought to Our Shores by the Cupidity of Others," 1847
  • The Care Cure
  • "Gross and Criminal Negligence" at the Lazaretto,1853
  • The Darkest Hour, 1870
  • Quarantine, a Political Minefield
  • The Final Days, 1888-1895
  • Afterlives.

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