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69 “Smallpox in the State,” PMJ, 9 (Jan. 25, 1902), 155.
70 On Roseto, see Stewart Wolf and John G. Bruhn, The Power of Clan: The Influence of Human Relationships on Heart Disease (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998), esp. 13–24.
71 Leroy Parker and Robert H. Worthington, The Law of Public Health and Safety, and the Powers and Duties of Boards of Health (Albany, NY: Matthew Bender, 1892), 131. See “Many Tricks of the Ignorant Poor to Hide Contagious Diseases from the Health Board,” NYTRIB, Aug. 2, 1903, 3. See also “Girl Hid from Vaccinators,” NYT, Mar. 14, 1901, 3; “Smallpox Nest in Brooklyn,” ibid., Mar. 20, 1901, 2; “Defies the Health Board,” ibid., Jul. 14, 1901, 3.
72 Chapin, Municipal Sanitation, 607–8.
73 “New Orleans Pesthouse,” NYT, Apr. 1, 1900, 2. “Lay All Blame on Pest House,” Salt Lake Herald, Jun. 2, 1903, 2. “At North Brother Island,” NYT, Jun. 16, 1901, 20. “Wrong Body Sent Home,” ibid., Nov. 25, 1901, 11.
74 Kirk v. Board of Health, 83 S.C. 372 (1909), 374, 384, 383. Samuel W. Abbott, “Legislation with Reference to Small-Pox and Vaccination,” MC, Jan. 1, 1902, 155.
75 “Hospital Spread of Smallpox,” JAMA, June 16, 1894, reprinted in ibid., June 15, 1994, 1812. “AirBorne Smallpox,” Scientific American Supplement, 1422 (Apr. 4, 1903): 22737–38. London Times quoted in ibid., 22737.
76 NCBOH 1903–04, 16 (recalling Durham episode circa 1899). “North Side Men Indignant,” Omaha Daily Bee, Jan. 17, 1899, 5; “Object to the Pest House,” ibid., Jul. 11, 1899, 7. “Fire Destroys Pest House,” ibid., Nov. 9, 1899, 12; “Cause of Action Burned,” ibid., Nov. 14, 1899, 7. On Houston, see “City Council Meeting,” Houston Daily Post, Nov. 21, 1899, 6. On Union County, see “Here and There,” Hopkinsville Kentuckian, Apr. 17, 1900, 8. On Bradford, see “Pest House Fired by Mob,” AC, Apr. 12, 1901, 3. On Turtle Creek, see “Quaker Mob Defies Sheriff,” AC, May 14, 1900, 1.
77 “Tried to Burn a Smallpox Hospital,” NYT, Mar. 10, 1901, 3. “Police at Orange Hospital,” ibid., Mar. 11, 1901, 3. “Smallpox Hospital Razed by Mob,” ibid., Mar. 12, 1901, 2. “Hospital Ruins Set on Fire,” ibid., Mar. 13, 1901, 2.
78 “The Outrage at Orange,” ibid., Mar. 13, 1901, 8. “Orange’s Smallpox Hospital,” ibid., Mar. 14, 1901, 3. “Plea of an Orange Resident,” ibid., Mar. 15, 1901, 8.
79 Potts v. Breen, 167 Ill. 67, 76 (1897).
80 Jack London, War of the Classes (New York: Macmillan Co., 1905), 276–77.
81 Ibid. Jack London, The Road (New York: Macmillan, 1907, 1916), 74–97, esp. 90.
82 London, The Road, 90.
SEVEN:THE ANTIVACCINATIONISTS
1 “The Smallpox Versus Dr. Pfeiffer,” MN, Feb. 22, 1902, 363. “The Case of Dr. Pfeiffer,” BMSJ, 146 (1902): 201–11.
2 “Quarantine More Rigid,” BG, Nov. 26, 1901, 4. Durgin repeated his challenge at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts boards of health; “Smallpox Talk,” ibid., Jan. 31, 1902, 2.
3 BOSHD 1901, 43–45. “Smallpox in Roxbury,” BG, May 18, 1901, 9. “First Death from Smallpox,” ibid., Oct. 27, 1901, 16. “Boston’s Weekly Health Report,” ibid., Nov. 3, 1901, 16. “Ninety Percent Not Vaccinated,” ibid., Nov. 23, 1901, 11. “Eight New Cases,” ibid., Nov. 25, 1901, 8. “Virus Squad Out,” ibid., Nov. 18, 1901, 7. See Michael Albert et al., “The Last Smallpox Epidemic in Boston and the Vaccination Controversy, 1901–1902,” NEJM, 344 (Feb. 1, 2001), 375–79; and Michael Albert et al., “Smallpox Manifestations and Survival during the Boston Epidemic of 1901 to 1903,” AIM, 137 (Dec. 17, 2002): 993–1000. In a study of surviving medical files from the Southampton Street hospital, Albert et al. concluded that “the Boston epidemic was caused by the classic variola major form” of the smallpox virus. Ibid., 993.
4 “Vaccination Is the Curse of Childhood,