Brooklyn Health Dept. Hires Medical Tyrant Taylor Emery to Solve Smallpox Breakout
When smallpox reappeared in Brooklyn in 1893 after an absence of several years, many health officials were frustrated that they had no legal authority to compel the vaccination of reluctant citizens. To control the disease, vaccinators were dispatched to a site where a case had been diagnosed and then fanned out to the houses on either side, offering protection to the neighbors—“surrounding each case by an ...
