Instructions from health-officers to customs officials for the district of Portsmouth

Item Info

Title:
Instructions from health-officers to customs officials for the district of Portsmouth
Date:
May 17, 1800
Description:

  • Letter instructing customs officers in the district of Portsmouth to quarantine ships with passengers or crew infected with "plague, yellow-fever, small-pox, or any malignant, pestilential or contagious destempers," and to notify the under-signed health officers of the district.

  • Folder: NH1

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Subject:
Language:
English
Extent:
2 scans
Digital Collection:
Broadsides and Ephemera Collection
Rights:
Free Re-Use
Public Domain
Identifier:
  • 002067234
  • duke:467350
  • bdsnh11253
  • ark:/87924/r4qb9xc4g
  • 3330d40b-d9f6-4680-ab17-d8700947f637
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