Epidemics

Plague, cholera, influenza, smallpox, polio, HIV and COVID. Plague doctors, quarantine flags, fever hospitals and the ordinary municipal paperwork of a city trying not to die.

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112 moments in this segment.

1. 1150 - Yamai no Soshi - Woman with Cholera Nostras. Yamai no Soshi (病草紙). Dated 1150, credited to Unknown artist Unknown artist. Epidemic response leaves behind administrative objects: notices, registers, cordons and bills of mortality.
2. 1310 - Officers and nurses, Camp Jackson (NCP 1310), National Museum of Health and Medicine. The image records officers and nurses, Camp Jackson (NCP 1310), National Museum of Health and Medicine Description: Officers and nurses of the Base Hospital at Camp Jackson, South Carolina, during the influenza epidemic. This was an emergency hospital during the epidemic. Dated 1310, credited to National Museum of Health and Medicine. Death estimates for the 1918 influenza pandemic run from 17 to 100 million, with 25 to 50 million generally accepted. The name Spanish flu is a misnomer produced by wartime censorship elsewhere.
3. 1347 - Diffusion de la peste noire en europe 1347-1351. An object held in the epidemics material of the free record, catalogued on Wikimedia Commons. Dated 1347 in the Commons record. Cities met epidemics with the tools of government before they had the tools of medicine.
4. 1348 - Boccaccio's 'The plague of Florence in 1348'. The plague of Florence in 1348, as described in Boccaccio's Decameron ('Il decameron'). Etching by L. Dated 1348 in the Commons record. What an epidemic was believed to be determined what was built against it, and the buildings outlast the beliefs.
5. 1350 - Darstellung der Geißlerzüge. The image records darstellung der Geißlerzüge, um 1350, Chronik von Gilles Li Muisis, fol. 16v Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Brüssel. Dated 1350, credited to Pierart dou Tielt (fl. 1340-1360). Counting the dead was itself a contested act, and the numbers usually arrived late.
6. 1352 - Doutielt1. Miniature by Pierart dou Tielt illustrating the Tractatus quartus by Gilles li Muisit (Tournai, c. Title: "Gilles li Muisis, Antiquitates Flandriae (Tractatus quartus)". Dated 1352, credited to Pierart dou Tielt (fl. 1340-1360). Boards of health were often created during an outbreak and dissolved once it passed.
7. 1506 - La peste de Phrygie - (estampe) (4e état) - INV. RAP. VR. (d'après Raphaël). Sujet : Peste Cadavres Mouton Bos Phrygie (Turquie) Scènes mythologiques -- 16e siècle Référence bibliographique : Bartsch, 417 Référence bibliographique : Illustrated Bartsch, 417 Référence bibliographique : Delaborde, 189 Référence bibliographique : Courboin, n.d. Éditeur : [s.n.]. Dated 1506 in the Commons record. Printed notices did much of the work of epidemic control, telling people what was forbidden.
8. 1515 - A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene. The image records a plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene, ill people at the right. Dated 1515, credited to Marcantonio Raimondi / Raphael. Trade and travel routes shaped epidemic spread, so the maps are commercial as much as medical.
9. 1550 - Raimondi - The Plague, 23.984. Engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Dated 1550, credited to Marcantonio Raimondi. Isolation hospitals were built at the edges of towns and are often the only physical trace an epidemic left.
10. 1570 - Sculptuur van cholera slachtoffers door Antoine Étex. Identificatie Titel(s): Sculptuur van cholera slachtoffers door Antoine Étex, tentoongesteld op de Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations van 1851 in Londen. (Plaster) Etex (titel op object) Objecttype: foto bladzijde Objectnummer: RP-F-F25215-AI Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: fotograaf: anoniem, drukker: Nicolaas Henneman, drukker: Robert Jefferson Bingham Plaats vervaardiging. Dated 1570, credited to Rijksmuseum. Mortality bills were compiled parish by parish, an early and imperfect kind of public statistics.
11. 1603 - Emergency hospital during influenza epidemic (NCP 1603), National Museum of Health and Medicine. The image records emergency hospital during influenza epidemic (NCP 1603), National Museum of Health and Medicine. Description: Beds with patients in an emergency hospital in Camp Funston, Kansas, in the midst of the influenza epidemic. Dated 1603, credited to medicalmuseum. Death estimates for the 1918 influenza pandemic run from 17 to 100 million, with 25 to 50 million generally accepted. The name Spanish flu is a misnomer produced by wartime censorship elsewhere.
12. 1664 - Bills of Mortality Feb 21 - 28 1664. Bills of Mortality form February 21 -28, 1664. A plague free week. Dated 1664 in the Commons record. Each epidemic was interpreted through the theory available at the time, which is visible in what was built against it.
13. 1665 - Certain necessary directions, 1665. Bill of Mortality for 13 to 20 June 1665: 'The Diseases and Casualties this Week' - first side. Dated 1665 in the Commons record. Epidemic response leaves behind administrative objects: notices, registers, cordons and bills of mortality.
14. 1679 - Ferraran leaflet advising no contact with people from Graz. Small poster or leaflet from Ferrara dated 5 December 1679 (published 7 December 1679) proclaiming that there should be no contact or trade with people from Graz in Austria and Bruma on pain of death due to plague being in both cities General Collections. Dated 1679 in the Commons record. Quarantine takes its name from the forty days Venetian authorities held arriving ships, an administrative technology older than any theory of what it was containing.
15. 1707 - Plague Workers Mukden, Manchuria, 1882-ca. 1936 (imp-cswc-GB-237-CSWC47-LS8-045). The image records plague Workers Mukden, Manchuria, 1911 Photograph of a group of plague workers in Mukden, Manchuria. The workers are standing in front of a low wooden building, possibly Mukden Plague hospital. Dated 1707, credited to Unknown author Unknown author. ACT UP was founded on 12 March 1987 in New York after a speech by Larry Kramer. Its 1989 action on the New York Stock Exchange was followed by AZT's price falling from 10,000 to 6,400 dollars a year.
16. 1735 - The Blessed Bernardo Tolomei Visiting Victims of the Plague by Giuseppe Maria Crespi. The image records the Blessed Bernardo Tolomei Visiting Victims of the Plague. Dated 1735, credited to Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Cities met epidemics with the tools of government before they had the tools of medicine.
17. 1788 - Lasarettet 01. Lasarettet (military hospital from 1788) at Odderoya, Lasaretthøyden, Kristiansand, Norway. Dated 1788, credited to Bjoertvedt. What an epidemic was believed to be determined what was built against it, and the buildings outlast the beliefs.
18. 1805 - Revue des peintres Pl.11. Scène du choléra. G.38182. Auteur(s): Julien, Bernard-Romain (Bayonne, 16, 11, 1802 - Bayonne, 03, 12, 1871), dessinateur-lithographe Bouchot, François (Paris, 29, 11, 1800 - Paris, 07, 02, 1842), auteur du modèle Delaunois, Nicolas Louis (Reims, 06, 02, 1805), imprimeur-lithographe Autre titre: La mort : le décès, la veillée du défunt. (Titre de la série) Date de production: En 1834 Datation en siècle: 19e siècle Type(s). Dated 1805 in the Commons record. Counting the dead was itself a contested act, and the numbers usually arrived late.
19. 1831 - Cholera-tramples-the-victors-and-the-vanquished-both-robert-seymour-1831 u-l-pii0om0. Cholera tramples the victors and the vanquished both, by Robert Seymour. Cholera, as a large shrouded specter with skeletal hands and feet, indiscriminately crushes soldiers on both sides of the battlefield. Dated 1831, credited to Robert Seymour. Boards of health were often created during an outbreak and dissolved once it passed.
20. 1832 - A woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epid. The image records a woman extravagantly equipped to deal with the cholera epidemic of 1832; satirizing the abundance of dubious advice on how to combat cholera. Wellcome Images.G. Dated 1832 in the Commons record. Printed notices did much of the work of epidemic control, telling people what was forbidden.
21. 1832 - Le cholera a Quebec en 1832 - Joseph Legare. Le choléra à Québec en 1832, huile sur toile de Joseph Légaré, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, no 7157. « En 1832, l’Occident est frappé par le choléra. Dated 1832, credited to Joseph Légaré. Trade and travel routes shaped epidemic spread, so the maps are commercial as much as medical.
22. 1833 - Kungörelse om kolerans utbrott 1833, bild 1. An object held in the epidemics material of the free record, catalogued on Wikimedia Commons. Dated 1833 in the Commons record. Isolation hospitals were built at the edges of towns and are often the only physical trace an epidemic left.
23. 1840 - Deaths in district of Merthyr Tydvil, 1840 and 1843. Table of deaths, by consumption and epidemics in the districts of Merthyr Tydvil in the two years 1840 and 1843. Dated 1840 in the Commons record. Mortality bills were compiled parish by parish, an early and imperfect kind of public statistics.
24. 1847 - Carbon specimens from James Paxton's 'Observations....' paper. Illustrations of various formations of carbon as found in the human body specifically the lungs. Title page of James Paxton's 'Observations on the existence of Free Carbon in the Human Body' read at the 15th anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgery Association, held at Derby on Wednesday and Thursday August 4th and 5th 1847. Dated 1847 in the Commons record. Each epidemic was interpreted through the theory available at the time, which is visible in what was built against it.
25. 1852 - Temperature & mortality of London, 1840-50. Chart showing temperature and mortality of London for every week of 11 years, 1840-50. The shaded black colour denotes the extent by which the weekly deaths exceed the average; the yellow colour denotes the extent by which the weekly deaths are below the average; the red colour denotes the extent by which the mean temperature of the week exceeds the mean temperature of the years 1771-1849; the. Dated 1852 in the Commons record. Epidemic response leaves behind administrative objects: notices, registers, cordons and bills of mortality.
26. 1854 - Map of Soho showing deaths from Cholera, 1854.. Map showing deaths from Cholera in Broad Street, Golden Square, and the neighbourhood, from 19th August to 30th September 1854 General Collections. Dated 1854 in the Commons record. John Snow persuaded the Board of Guardians of St James's parish to remove the Broad Street pump handle on 8 September 1854. He wrote afterwards that attacks had so far diminished beforehand that it was impossible to decide whether the well still carried the poison, declining the credit himself.
27. 1859 - Monumento a Henrique César de Araújo Pousão - Portugal. Em 1859, no dia 1 de Janeiro, nasce, em Vila Viçosa, no nº 10 da Rua da Corredoura, actualmente denominada Rua Florbela Espanca. De seu nome completo, Henrique César de Araújo Pousão, foi fruto da união matrimonial de Francisco Augusto Nunes Pousão, Bacharel em Direito, com Maria Teresa Alves de Araújo. Dated 1859, credited to Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL. Cities met epidemics with the tools of government before they had the tools of medicine.
28. 1865 - François-Nicolas Chifflart, Cholera in Paris, 1865, NGA 126574. Cholera in Paris. Dated 1865, credited to François-Nicolas Chifflart. What an epidemic was believed to be determined what was built against it, and the buildings outlast the beliefs.
29. 1875 - Glass lactometer, England, 1875-1900. Milk inspection became a government responsibility in the late 1800s. This mercury filled glass lactometer would have been placed into a cup of milk. Dated 1875 in the Commons record. Counting the dead was itself a contested act, and the numbers usually arrived late.
30. 1883 - Passengers on a ship undergoing quarantine examination durin. The image records passengers on a ship undergoing quarantine examination during the Egyptian cholera epidemic of 1883. Wood engraving, 1883. Dated 1883, credited to The Illustrated London News. Quarantine takes its name from the forty days Venetian authorities held arriving ships, an administrative technology older than any theory of what it was containing.
31. 1900 - Anti-spitting sign, Ireland, 1900-1920. Before the Second World War, tuberculosis (TB) was widely feared. It had been one of the biggest killers in the 1800s. Dated 1900 in the Commons record. Boards of health were often created during an outbreak and dissolved once it passed.
32. 1909 - 3913 Hospital ward. Image 3913 Interior Örgryte epidemic hospital 8.2.1909. Dated 1909, credited to Unknown author Unknown author. Printed notices did much of the work of epidemic control, telling people what was forbidden.
33. 1910 - Tuberculosis camp LCCN2016824828. Title: Tuberculosis camp Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass; 8 x 10 in. Dated 1910, credited to National Photo Company Collection. Trade and travel routes shaped epidemic spread, so the maps are commercial as much as medical.
34. 1918 - Medical Department - Influenza Epidemic 1918 - Emergency hospital, Brookline, Massachusetts. Scope and content: Date Taken: 10/1/1918. Dated 1918, credited to Unknown author Unknown author or not provided. Death estimates for the 1918 influenza pandemic run from 17 to 100 million, with 25 to 50 million generally accepted. The name Spanish flu is a misnomer produced by wartime censorship elsewhere.
35. 1926 - Reminiscences of TB Sanitorium and Preventorium (1926, narration added 1988). National Library of Medicine records Reminiscences of TB Sanitorium and Preventorium (1926, narration added 1988), on material dated 1926. Kept as what a city does when disease arrives.
36. 1945 - Case History of Lucy X (National Tuberculosis Association, 1945). National Library of Medicine examines Case History of Lucy X (National Tuberculosis Association, 1945), on material dated 1945. Kept as counting, mapping and isolating.
37. 1952 - T.B. Nurse Wallace (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, [1952]). National Library of Medicine traces T.B. Nurse Wallace (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, [1952]), on material dated 1952. The record it provides is how a society organised against contagion.
38. 1955 - "1955 Polio Epidemic". BCH Archives documents "1955 Polio Epidemic", on material dated 1955. Polio is not eradicated. Wild poliovirus type 2 was declared eradicated on 20 September 2015 and type 3 on 24 October 2019, leaving type 1 circulating in Pakistan and Afghanistan. There were 99 cases in 2024 and 40 in 2025, and vaccine derived polio persists in pockets.
39. 1974 - British Modular Lower Limbs System (1974). Wellcome Library documents British Modular Lower Limbs System (1974), on material dated 1974. What it offers is the epidemic as an administrative event.
40. 1983 - 1983 NEWS SPECIAL: The AIDS Phenomenon | Early AIDS Documentary. WayBack Archives covers 1983 NEWS SPECIAL: The AIDS Phenomenon, on material dated 1983. Held for how a society organised against contagion.
41. 1983 - 1983 NEWS SPECIAL: Diagnosis ( EARLY AIDS DOCUMENTARY ). WayBack Archives surveys 1983 NEWS SPECIAL: Diagnosis ( EARLY AIDS DOCUMENTARY ), on material dated 1983. It belongs here as what a city does when disease arrives.
42. 1985 - 1985 "AIDS: An Incredible Epidemic" by San Francisco General Hospital. San Francisco Public Library documents 1985 "AIDS: An Incredible Epidemic" by San Francisco General Hospital, on material dated 1985. The record it provides is quarantine, mapping and the board of health.
43. 1985 - NOVA: AIDS – Chapter One (1985) | The Early Fight Against a Global Epidemic 🦠. Digitalized Archives sets out NOVA: AIDS – Chapter One (1985), on material dated 1985. It belongs here as surveillance and the counting of cases.
44. 1986 - NOVA: Can AIDS Be Stopped? (1986) 🧬🦠 | The Fight Against a Deadly Virus. Digitalized Archives presents NOVA: Can AIDS Be Stopped? (1986) 🧬🦠, on material dated 1986. Held for the outbreak as a problem of administration.
45. 1989 - 1989 NEWS SPECIAL: AIDS In Black & Minority Communities | Real Stories. WayBack Archives surveys 1989 NEWS SPECIAL: AIDS In Black & Minority Communities, on material dated 1989. It belongs here as disease at the scale of a population.
46. 1989 - 1989 - Alison Gertz, living with HIV-AIDS, testimony of an activist (WHO archive). World Health Organization presents 1989 - Alison Gertz, living with HIV-AIDS, testimony of an activist (WHO archive), on material dated 1989. The record it provides is the epidemic as an administrative event.
47. 1990 - 1990 NEWS SPECIAL: AIDS in Houston | Real Stories. WayBack Archives presents 1990 NEWS SPECIAL: AIDS in Houston, on material dated 1990. Filed as the epidemic as an administrative event.
48. 1996 - President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton view the AIDS Memorial Quilt on th. The image records president Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton view the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the Mall in Washington, DC. Dated 1996, credited to Ralph Alswang White House Photograph Office. ACT UP was founded on 12 March 1987 in New York after a speech by Larry Kramer. Its 1989 action on the New York Stock Exchange was followed by AZT's price falling from 10,000 to 6,400 dollars a year.
49. 2004 - 03.08.AIDS.Quilt.Opening.Ellipse.WDC.25June2004 - Flickr - Elvert Barnes. NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Opening Ceremony on the Ellipse at Presidents Park across from the White House in NW Washington DC on Friday morning, 25 June 2004 by Elvert Barnes Photography Unveiling / Unfolding EVENT 04.89 AIDS Memorial Quilt Display / Opening Ceremony Friday, 25 June 2004 Film Roll 3/6 10:25 am until 12:45 pm Visit NAMES Project Foundation AIDS Memorial Quilt website at. Dated 2004, credited to Elvert Barnes from Silver Spring MD, USA. ACT UP was founded on 12 March 1987 in New York after a speech by Larry Kramer. Its 1989 action on the New York Stock Exchange was followed by AZT's price falling from 10,000 to 6,400 dollars a year.
50. 2008-11-11 - John Snow and the cholera outbreak of 1854 with Mike Jay | Medical London. Wellcome Collection sets out John Snow and the cholera outbreak of 1854 with Mike Jay, on material dated 1854. The stronger evidence was his Grand Experiment, which found cholera rates fourteen times higher in homes supplied by Southwark and Vauxhall than in those supplied by Lambeth. The curate Henry Whitehead helped identify the source by talking to Soho residents, and is largely absent from the popular telling.
51. 2009 - Tuberculosis symptoms. Main symptoms of different variants and stages of tuberculosis (See Wikipedia:Tuberculosis ), with many symptoms overlapping with other variants, while others are more (but not entirely) specific for certain variants. Multiple variants may be present simultaneously. Dated 2009, credited to Mikael Häggström. Isolation hospitals were built at the edges of towns and are often the only physical trace an epidemic left.
52. 2009-11-19 - 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Is the pandemic all we thought it would be?. UW School of Medicine and Public Health presents 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Is the pandemic all we thought it would be?, published in 2009. It belongs here as the epidemic as an administrative event.
53. 2011-03-16 - 17. Malaria (II): The Global Challenge. YaleCourses documents 17. Malaria (II): The Global Challenge, published in 2011. Held for the epidemic as an administrative event.
54. 2011-03-16 - 10. Asiatic Cholera (II): Five Pandemics. YaleCourses sets out 10. Asiatic Cholera (II): Five Pandemics, published in 2011. Kept as surveillance and the counting of cases.
55. 2011-03-16 - 1. Introduction to the Course. YaleCourses records 1. Introduction to the Course, published in 2011. What it offers is what a city does when disease arrives.
56. 2011-03-16 - 9. Asiatic Cholera (I): Personal Reflections. YaleCourses surveys 9. Asiatic Cholera (I): Personal Reflections, published in 2011. Carried for disease at the scale of a population.
57. 2011-07-12 - "The Evolution of HIV Testing: Then, Now and Beyond". Centers for Disease Control and Prevention covers "The Evolution of HIV Testing: Then, Now and Beyond", published in 2011. Kept as disease at the scale of a population.
58. 2012 - Spier's Cholera Pit 2012. The site of the 1834 Cholera pit near Spier's Old School Grounds, North Ayrshire, Scotland. Dated 2012, credited to Rosser1954. Mortality bills were compiled parish by parish, an early and imperfect kind of public statistics.
59. 2012 - Maul und Klauenseuche. An object held in the epidemics material of the free record, catalogued on Wikimedia Commons. Dated 2012, credited to Monster4711. Each epidemic was interpreted through the theory available at the time, which is visible in what was built against it.
60. 2013-03-20 - Gain-of-Function Research on HPAI H5N1 Viruses: Welcome and Introductory Remarks. National Institutes of Health traces Gain-of-Function Research on HPAI H5N1 Viruses: Welcome and Introductory Remarks, published in 2013. Carried for the outbreak as a problem of administration.
61. 2013-04-30 - Basic Course in HIV - Pathophysiology and Natural History of HIV Infection. Harvard University examines Basic Course in HIV - Pathophysiology and Natural History of HIV Infection, published in 2013. Held for counting, mapping and isolating.
62. 2013-05-16 - The History of HIV and Current Epidemic. University of California Television presents The History of HIV and Current Epidemic, published in 2013. This is the epidemic as an administrative event.
63. 2013-05-28 - Eradicating the Guinea Worm: Kelly Callahan at TEDxAtlanta. TEDx Talks examines Eradicating the Guinea Worm: Kelly Callahan at TEDxAtlanta, published in 2013. Guinea worm cases fell from 892,055 in 1989 to 10 in 2025, with six countries endemic and a WHO target of 2030. Filed as how a society organised against contagion.
64. 2013 - La Normandie Jules Janin illustration 83. La Normandie par M. Jules Janin, illustrée par MM Morel-Fatio, Tellier, Gigoux, Daubigny, Debon, H. Dated 2013, credited to Man vyi. Epidemic response leaves behind administrative objects: notices, registers, cordons and bills of mortality.
65. 2013-07-09 - Vaccines - lecture by Prof. Andrew J. Pollard. Oxford BRC surveys Vaccines - lecture by Prof. Andrew J. Pollard, published in 2013. The record it provides is disease at the scale of a population.
66. 2013-10-16 - Chris Whitty: Human Diseases. Gresham College sets out Chris Whitty: Human Diseases, published in 2013. Kept as the outbreak as a problem of administration.
67. 2014 - Library Walk 5 Albert Camus distortion-corrected. Sidewalk plaque with a quote from the English version of The Plague by Albert Camus in the Library Way (New York City). The quote reads, "Dr. Dated 2014, credited to Yen Zotto. Cities met epidemics with the tools of government before they had the tools of medicine.
68. 2014 - The Road to Zero: CDC’s Response to the West African Ebola Epidemic, 2014–2015. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention records The Road to Zero: CDC’s Response to the West African Ebola Epidemic, 2014–2015, on material dated 2014. Included as what a city does when disease arrives.
69. 2015-04-03 - The next outbreak? We’re not ready | Bill Gates | TED. TED traces The next outbreak? We’re not ready, published in 2015. Filed as the outbreak as a problem of administration.
70. 2015 - Scène d'intercession, Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts. "Scène d'intercession", élément d'un retable (de la prédelle ?), Biberach, vers 1520. Dated 2015, credited to Céline Rabaud. What an epidemic was believed to be determined what was built against it, and the buildings outlast the beliefs.
71. 2015-06-30 - In the Life: Ep. 1603, "The Changing Face of AIDS". UCLA Film & Television Archive records In the Life: Ep. 1603, "The Changing Face of AIDS", on material dated 1603. Held for surveillance and the counting of cases.
72. 2016-02-26 - Appendicitis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & pathology. Osmosis from Elsevier covers Appendicitis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & pathology, published in 2016. What it offers is how a society organised against contagion.
73. 2016 - TB Graphic. An object held in the epidemics material of the free record, catalogued on Wikimedia Commons. Dated 2016, credited to Cpogge. Counting the dead was itself a contested act, and the numbers usually arrived late.
74. 2016-11-01 - Introduction to Epidemiology. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention covers Introduction to Epidemiology, published in 2016. Kept as how a society organised against contagion.
75. 2016-11-04 - Zika Virus, Dengue and the Yellow Fever Mosquito - Professor Chris Whitty and Professor Francis Cox. Gresham College presents Zika Virus, Dengue and the Yellow Fever Mosquito - Professor Chris Whitty and Professor Francis Cox, published in 2016. This is surveillance and the counting of cases.
76. 2017-01-29 - Epidemiology Lecture - Part 1. James Lind Institute documents Epidemiology Lecture - Part 1, published in 2017. What it offers is quarantine, mapping and the board of health.
77. 2017-04-19 - What we don't know about mother's milk | Katie Hinde. TED documents What we don't know about mother's milk, published in 2017. Held for quarantine, mapping and the board of health.
78. 2017-04-19 - John Snow and the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak. Harvard Online presents John Snow and the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, on material dated 1854. The Broad Street pump handle was removed on 8 September 1854 by the Board of Guardians of St James's parish, the day after John Snow addressed them. Snow wrote afterwards that attacks had so far diminished before the water was stopped that it was impossible to decide whether the well still held the cholera poison, declining the credit later assigned to him.
79. 2017-05-05 - Welcome on Board – Infection Prevention at the University Hospital Zurich (subtitles). Universitätsspital Zürich covers Welcome on Board – Infection Prevention at the University Hospital Zurich (subtitles), published in 2017. The value here is how a society organised against contagion.
80. 2017-07-24 - Ebola Outbreak 360° | FRONTLINE. FRONTLINE PBS records Ebola Outbreak 360°, published in 2017. It belongs here as quarantine, mapping and the board of health.
81. 2017-10-16 - John Snow's contribution to modern epidemiology. Harvard Online traces John Snow's contribution to modern epidemiology, published in 2017. Its place in the archive is the outbreak as a problem of administration.
82. 2017-12-14 - The epidemic of the "I Know All" expert | Mikhail (Doctor Mike) Varshavski | TEDxMonteCarlo. TEDx Talks documents The epidemic of the "I Know All" expert, published in 2017. This is quarantine, mapping and the board of health.
83. 2018-05-17 - Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer | What I do & how much I make | Part 1 | Khan Academy. Careers and Personal Finance by Khan Academy documents Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, published in 2018. The value here is quarantine, mapping and the board of health.
84. 2018-05-17 - Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer | How I got my job & where I'm going | Part 2 | Khan Academy. Careers and Personal Finance by Khan Academy documents Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, published in 2018. The value here is the epidemic as an administrative event.
85. 2018-09-21 - CDC’s Quarantine Legacy. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documents CDC’s Quarantine Legacy, published in 2018. Its place in the archive is quarantine, mapping and the board of health.
86. 2018-11-30 - Spanish Flu: a warning from history. Cambridge University surveys Spanish Flu: a warning from history, published in 2018. The 1918 influenza pandemic was called Spanish flu because belligerent nations censored pandemic news for morale while neutral Spain reported it freely. Spain called it the French flu, or the Naples Soldier after a popular song, and every country blamed a neighbour.
87. 2019 - Blue nlie state 3. This is an image with the theme " Health and Wellness in Africa " from:. Dated 2019, credited to Wd adil. Boards of health were often created during an outbreak and dissolved once it passed.
88. 2019-08-13 - History of the Opioid Crisis: How We Got Here. University of California Television records History of the Opioid Crisis: How We Got Here, published in 2019. The record it provides is what a city does when disease arrives.
89. 2020-01-26 - China's new SARS related coronavirus explained. AP Archive records China's new SARS related coronavirus explained, published in 2020. Filed as quarantine, mapping and the board of health.
90. 2020-03-13 - Coronavirus: contain and delay phases Explained - BBC News. BBC News presents Coronavirus: contain and delay phases Explained - BBC News, published in 2020. Filed as surveillance and the counting of cases.
91. 2020-03-13 - Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia. Penn Museum records Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia, on material dated 1918. Death estimates range from 17 to 100 million, with 25 to 50 million generally accepted, and the geographic origin remains indeterminate. Filed as what a city does when disease arrives.
92. 2020-03-16 - Switzerland declares state of emergency over coronavirus outbreak | The Evening Show March 16, 2020. Archive TV sets out Switzerland declares state of emergency over coronavirus outbreak, published in 2020. What it offers is surveillance and the counting of cases.
93. 2020-03-27 - How WWI Changed America: The Influenza Epidemic. National WWI Museum and Memorial surveys How WWI Changed America: The Influenza Epidemic, published in 2020. Its place in the archive is disease at the scale of a population.
94. 2020 - COVID-19 Community Quarantine Checkpoint in Cagayan. A police officer explains the reason for the implementation of a community quarantine to a resident at a checkpoint in Tuguegarao City.(by PIA). Dated 2020, credited to Philippine Information Agency. Quarantine takes its name from the forty days Venetian authorities held arriving ships, an administrative technology older than any theory of what it was containing.
95. 2020 - Quarantine staff screening passengers in Shenzhen. Quarantine staff (检疫人员) wearing protective equipment to screen passengers on a plane after landing at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in March 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Dated 2020, credited to Mx. Granger. Quarantine takes its name from the forty days Venetian authorities held arriving ships, an administrative technology older than any theory of what it was containing.
96. 2020 - Pissoirs während der COVID-19-Pandemie. Zwei verschiedene Toilettenanlagen, die aufgrund von Massnahmen gegen die COVID-19-Pandemie besonders eingerichtet wurden. Das obere Bild wurde im Coop Strättligen Markt in Thun (CH) aufgenommen. Dated 2020, credited to Nachtbold. Printed notices did much of the work of epidemic control, telling people what was forbidden.
97. 2020-09-30 - Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History. US National Archives traces Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, published in 2020. The value here is the outbreak as a problem of administration.
98. 2020-12-21 - What Did John Snow Know About Cholera? - with James Grime. The Royal Institution covers What Did John Snow Know About Cholera? - with James Grime, published in 2020. The record it provides is surveillance and the counting of cases.
99. 2021-01-12 - Edith Wharton - “A Lady Doesn’t Write” - A BBC2 ‘Bookmark’ Documentary narrated by Ian Holm. LEMAN PRODUCTIONS ARCHIVE examines Edith Wharton - “A Lady Doesn’t Write” - A BBC2 ‘Bookmark’ Documentary narrated by Ian Holm, published in 2021. It belongs here as counting, mapping and isolating.
100. 2021 - Cholera historic pump sign - John Snow. An object held in the epidemics material of the free record, catalogued on Wikimedia Commons. Dated 2021, credited to Jamzze. John Snow persuaded the Board of Guardians of St James's parish to remove the Broad Street pump handle on 8 September 1854. He wrote afterwards that attacks had so far diminished beforehand that it was impossible to decide whether the well still carried the poison, declining the credit himself.
101. 2022 - Cholera pit, St Maurs-Glencairn churchyard. East Ayrshire. The image records cholera pit, St Maurs-Glencairn churchyard. Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire. Dated 2022, credited to Rosser1954. Trade and travel routes shaped epidemic spread, so the maps are commercial as much as medical.
102. 2022-11-22 - Why plague doctors wore beaked masks. TED surveys Why plague doctors wore beaked masks, published in 2022. It sits in the archive as disease at the scale of a population.
103. 2022-11-30 - Mask Wars — A History of Resistance to a Public Health Measure | NEJM. NEJM Group records Mask Wars , A History of Resistance to a Public Health Measure, published in 2022. Held for what a city does when disease arrives.
104. 2023 - Gravat de Rafel Juan i Contell. Vaccinació del Dr. Ferran a Alzira (La Ilustración Nacional). The image records gravat de Rafel Juan i Contell. Vaccinació del Dr. Dated 2023, credited to Jspko. Isolation hospitals were built at the edges of towns and are often the only physical trace an epidemic left.
105. 2023-11-28 - The diseases that changed humanity forever - Dan Kwartler. TED examines The diseases that changed humanity forever - Dan Kwartler, published in 2023. The record it provides is counting, mapping and isolating.
106. 2024-01-30 - Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague | Lost LA | S6 E5. PBS SoCal sets out Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Plague, published in 2024. Filed as counting, mapping and isolating.
107. 2024 - Acworth leprosy hospital Wadala entrance gate. An object held in the epidemics material of the free record, catalogued on Wikimedia Commons. Dated 2024, credited to Sayali Pawar. Mortality bills were compiled parish by parish, an early and imperfect kind of public statistics.
108. 2025-08-27 - The Forgotten American Plague They Don’t Teach You About. PBS Origins sets out The Forgotten American Plague They Don’t Teach You About, published in 2025. Carried for surveillance and the counting of cases.
109. 2025-12-25 - London 1665: The Great Plague & Fire (AI Reconstruction). Resurrected History sets out London 1665: The Great Plague & Fire (AI Reconstruction), on material dated 1665. Carried for counting, mapping and isolating.
110. 2026-02-11 - What Was London Like During the Great Plague (1665). Darkest Times Reconstructed covers What Was London Like During the Great Plague (1665), on material dated 1665. This is how a society organised against contagion.
111. 2026-02-28 - What Was Constantinopol Like During Justinian's Plague (541). Darkest Times Reconstructed surveys What Was Constantinopol Like During Justinian's Plague (541), published in 2026. It sits in the archive as what a city does when disease arrives.
112. 2026-05-18 - Doctor who survived Ebola shares concerns about latest outbreak in Central Africa. PBS NewsHour traces Doctor who survived Ebola shares concerns about latest outbreak in Central Africa, published in 2026. The record it provides is the outbreak as a problem of administration.