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Smallpox -- Hospitals -- Georgia -- Atlanta

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

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