Lewis Miller drawing--Dr. Kennedy waxenate (vaccinate) 1799.
Concern about the recent "Swine" N1H1 flu, and the precautions taken against it remind us of the days before many once virulent diseases were tamed by vaccines. About the only way to try to halt an epidemic was strict rule of quarantine.
As the notice below, which is from an 1872 York newspaper, shows that municipalities often stepped in to with ordinances to protect their citizens:
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