Public Health Chronicles

Biggs HM . Arguments in favor of the Jones-Tallett Amendment to the public health law in relation to vaccination. N Y State J Med 1915;15:89–90.

Toon E . Managing the conduct of the individual life: public health education and American public health, 1910 to 1940 [dissertation]. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania; 1998.

Tomes N . The gospel of germs: men, women and the microbe in American life. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press; 1998. p. 242–4.

Burnham JC . How superstition won and science lost. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press; 1987. p. 56–62.

Wiebe R . The search for order 1877–1920. New York: Hill and Wang; 1967.

Dawley A . Struggles for justice: social responsibility and the liberal state. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press; 1991.

Leavitt JW . “Typhoid Mary” strikes back: bacteriological theory and practice in early twentieth-century public health. Isis 1992;83:608–29.

Meckel R . Save the babies: American public health reform and the prevention of infant mortality, 1850–1929. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1990. p. 92–177.

Leach W . Land of desire: merchants, power and the rise of a new American culture. New York: Vintage Books; 1993.

Jackson Lears TJ . Fables of abundance: a cultural history of advertising in America. New York: Basic Books; 1994.

Moree EA . Public health publicity: the art of stimulating and focusing public opinion. Am J Public Health 1916;6:97–108.

Tomes N . Merchants of health: medicine and consumer culture in the United States, 1900–1940. J Am History 2001;88:519–47.

Apple R . Vitamania: vitamins in American culture. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press; 1996. p. 13–32.

Bundesen HN . Selling health—a vital duty. Am J Public Health 1928;18:1451–545.

Colgrove J . Between persuasion and compulsion: smallpox control in Brooklyn and New York, 1894–1902. Bull Hist Med 2004;78:349–78.

City of New York Department of Health annual report 1928. New York: F. Hubner & Company; 1929. p. 23.

Hammonds EM . Childhood's deadly scourge: the campaign to control diphtheria in New York City, 1880–1930. Baltimore (MD): Johns Hopkins University Press; 1999.

Preventing diphtheria in New York State. New York: State Committee on Tuberculosis and Public Health and State Charities Aid Association; 1927.

War on diphtheria from air. New York Times, 1928 May 2;19.

Bache LF . Health education in an American city. Garden City (NY): Doubleday, Doran & Company; 1934.

Routzahn EG . Education and publicity. Am J Public Health 1928;18:518–9.

City of New York Department of Health annual report 1929. New York: F. Hubner & Company; 1930. p. 20–32.

Boorstin D . The image; or, what happened to the American dream? New York: Atheneum; 1962. p. 11–2.

Palmer GT Derryberry M Van Ingen P . Health protection for the preschool child. New York: The Century Co; 1931. p. 113.

Godfrey ES . Practical uses of diphtheria immunization records. Am J Public Health 1933;23:809–12; 810.

Fowler W . State diphtheria immunization requirements. Public Health Rep 1942;57:325–8.

Galdston I . Health education and the public health of the future. Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society 1929:32–5.

Bolduan C . Health education today. Undated typescript [1938?], New York City Municipal Reference Library.

Nash ET Forbes JG . Diphtheria immunisation: its possibilities and difficulties. Public Health 1933;46:245–71.

The Supreme Court on vaccination laws. Am J Public Health 1923;13:120–1.

The evolution of public health work. N Y State J Med 1926;26: 614–6.

Rogers N . Dirt and disease: polio before FDR. New Brunswick (NJ): Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Brandt AM . No magic bullet: a social history of venereal disease in the United States, 1880–1980. New York: Oxford University Press; 1983.

Leavitt JW . Typhoid Mary: captive to the public's health. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Little boy blue. Undated pamphlet [1926?], Orleans County Committee on Tuberculosis and Public Health, New York City Department of Health Archives, Box 141380, Folder Diphtheria.

A year to fight diphtheria. New York Sun 1926 Jan 7.

Diphtheria is called conquered disease. New York Times 1926 Sep 3; 14.

Nicoll M . The age of public health. N Y State J Med 1927;27:114–6.