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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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2023.
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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.