Red Wing: Public Health

Source Document 1



  Type Document
  Year 1891
  Source
 Goodhue County Historical Society
  Size 44K

Patients were given these certificates to prove that they had been vaccinated for smallpox.



State Board of Health of Minnesota
Certificate of Vaccination No.

Vaccinated Adline Landech on
July 16, 1891 with vaccine from calf
no xxxviii at Station

at this (the day week) I
find 4 perfect vaccine vesicles, satisfac-
tory proof of successful vaccination
Dated at Red Wing, Charles Hewitt, MD
July 22/91

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