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Communicable diseases

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Atlanta Lung Association Records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS322
Scope and Content The collection contains the administrative records of the association as well as documents pertaining to the association's activities and programs. The records include board of director and committee minutes, correspondence, program agendas, newsletters and bulletins as well as reports pertaining to association activities and meetings. The bulk of the collection documents the association's attempt to educate the public on the pathology of tuberculosis and the widespread implications to the...
Dates: 1906-1977, undated

Variola Hospital ledger

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS797f
Scope and Content This collection consists of one ledger containing records on the patients of a smallpox hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The records list dates the patients entered the hospital, their name, the type of smallpox they had contracted, notes about quarantine or treatment, and the date of discharge or death. In addition, the ledger lists employees who became patients, recording the same information collected about regular patient's in addition to their occupation at the hospital before contracting...
Dates: 1894