Quarantine sign for scarlet fever
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Announcements
- Signs (Notices)
- Description
- Up to the early 1940s, many Field homes were posted with "quarantine signs". This is only one historical Field Township quarantine signs. Others included notices about measles, small pox and typhoid fever and other communicable illnesses.
- Notes
- Beginning in 1922, Field council counted on the local doctor regarding the postings on houses. When posted, residents could not leave, food had to be brought to them until they were no longer a threat to other residents. Children were also taken out of school if they lived in a quarantined house. This practice continued until the discovery of penicillin when such illnesses could be cured.[During the amalgamation many Field municipal information were thrown at the dump, these signs were rescued for posterity]
- Date of Original
- 1922
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 68
- Collection
- Collection Roger Lafond
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 46.50009 Longitude: -79.96637
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Copyright Holder
- Le Musée Sturgeon River House Museum
- Terms of Use
- Le matériel disponible ici peut être utilisé à des fins personnelles ou éducatives. L'utilisation de ce matériel devrait toujours inclure le crédit "Collection de la Société historique de Nipissing Ouest". Pour toutes autres fins, notamment pour des fins commerciales, on ne peut, sans l'autorisation expresse de la Société historique de Nipissing Ouest et, s'il y a lieu, des autres titulaires des droits d'auteur, modifier, copier, reproduire, republier, afficher, transmettre ou distribuer le matériel, de quelque manière que ce soit. / The material provided here is for personal or educational purposes. Use of this material should include the credit “Société historique de Nipissing Ouest Collection”. Express permission from the Société historique de Nipissing Ouest or other indicated copyright owners is required if you wish to modify, copy, reproduce, republish, post, transmit or distribute the material in any way for any other purposes, especially commercial.
- Contact
- Société historique de Nipissing OuestEmail:pn_dp@wnpl.ca
Agency street/mail address:250 chemin Fort Road
Sturgeon Falls ON P2B 2N7
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