Charts documenting incidence of a number of diseases in Berkeley, Calif., b5/19y the Health Department

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Descriptive Summary

Title: Charts documenting incidence of a number of diseases in Berkeley, Calif., b5/19y the Health Department

Dates: ca. 1918

Collection Number: 2013.051.02 Oversize B

Creator/Collector:

Extent: 3 charts ; 56 x 35 cm.

Repository: Berkeley Historical Society

Berkeley, California 94704

Abstract: 3 undated charts recording incidence of various diseases.

Language of Material: English

Access

The collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

Charts documenting incidence of a number of diseases in Berkeley, Calif., b5/19y the Health Department. Berkeley Historical Society

Acquisition Information

Gift of Mark Numainville, August 2013.

Scope and Content of Collection

Charts listing various diseases with number of cases reported indicated by pinholes in the charts. The charts are undated and presumably represent annual statistics, but the high incidence of influenza on one of them suggests the date of the epidemic, 1918, for one of them. Other common diseases with high incidence are measles and mumps, but a large number of diseases are recorded.