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Public Health

Title: Board of Health Report
Type: Document
Date: 1921
Source: Minnesota Historical Society

Description: This report describes the smallpox epidemic in Red Wing and notes the ages and symptoms of those who had the disease at the time.
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Board of Health Report

Activities:

  1. What information does this chart give you about the people who had smallpox in Red Wing at this time?



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  2. What might be alarming to a doctor about the fact that the last fives cases on the list attended school before they were diagnosed?



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  3. What does the author of this report suggest be done about the situation?



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  4. Why might it be simple for a doctor to mistake a case of chickenpox for a case of smallpox?



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