Save Yourself From Influenza...[public health graphic]
Public health information graphic furnished by The Virginia State Board of Health. Illustrations by Carl J. Rostrup of Richmond, Va.<br /><br />Transcription: <br /><br />"SAVE YOURSELF from INFLUENZA and pneumonia, bad colds, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheriam scarlet fever, whooping cough, meningitis, mumps<br /><br />FOLLOW TWO SIMPLE RULES<br /><br />RULE 1: Whenever you cough or sneeza, bow your head or put a handkerchief over your mouth and nose.<br /><br />Rule 2: Don't put in your mouth fingers, pencils, or anything else that does not belong there, nor use a common drinking cup.<br /><br />The Germs of these Diseases are spread through the secetions of the mouth and nose of sick people and carriers.<br /><br />Furnished by The Virginia State Board of Health<br />PLEASE POST: Council of National Defense, C.R. Keiley, Federal Field Secretary"<br /><br />[Image description: Next to the word 'SAFETY' is a drawing of a person coughing into a handkerchief and the text "use handkerchief when you cough or sneeze". Another drawing shows a person sneezng with his head bent down and his respiratory particles going towards the ground. Under this image is the text: "or bend your head toward the ground". Another series of drawings are under the word 'DANGER'. A drawing of someone biting a pencil and a drawing of someone biting their nails are on either side of text that says, "DON'T put pencils or fingers in your mouth". Two more drawings show a person drinking out of a pot and another sneezing with an open mouth spraying respratory particles outward and onto the person drinking. These are follwed with the text "DON'T use common drinking cup or cough or sneeze into the air towards others".]
Virginia State Board of Health
Annual Report of the State Board of Health and the State Health Commissioner to the Governor of Virginia for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1919.<br /><br />Bound with corresponding years of the <a href="http://search.library.vcu.edu/VCU:all_scope:VCU_ALMA21397764960001101" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Virginia Health Bulletin</a>, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, VCU Libraries
1919
Health Sciences Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/public-health/tuberculosis/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/nurses-settlement-richmond-va-handbook-settlements-1911/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nurses Settlement</a>, Richmond, VA, Social Welfare History Project<br /><br />Influenza Catechism (1918), <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067921224&view=2up&seq=604&size=125" target="_blank" title="Advice from the Virginia State Board of Health, 1918" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Virginia Health Bulletin</em></a>, (<em>X,</em>10). <br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/395xRj3" target="_blank" title="materials related to influenza in the Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Influenza</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=public+health" target="_blank" title="materials related to public health in the Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Public health</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Influenza virus vaccines for Richmond region
<p>After the influenza virus was finally identified in 1933, researchers immediately started to develop a vaccine. The first flu vaccine was approved for U.S. military use in 1945 and for civilian use in 1946. <br /><br />Unfortunately, the flu has several types, and many types come in multiple strains—each of which has to be included in a vaccine to provide protection. Each year, scientists make their best prediction as to which flu variants will circulate that year and prepare a vaccine that treats a combination of the most likely strains. Sometimes the match is a good one, but sometimes unexpected strains mean the vaccine is less effective. Immunity also wears off and different strains emerge—which is why it’s important to get a flu shot every year.</p>
Clark, Wallace Huey (photographer).
<p>V.85.37.2477, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/exhibition/pandemic-richmond-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection</a>, The Valentine</p>
1976 September 30
The Valentine
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[Virginia Public Health disease prevention illustration]
A public health graphic created to educate the public about avoiding the spread of disease. Published in the <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067921224&view=2up&seq=600" target="_blank" title="Virginia Health Bulletin via HathiTrust.org" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Virginia Health Bulletin</em></a> in 1918 during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu" target="_blank" title="1918 Spanish flu pandemic" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spanish flu</a> pandemic.
Rostrup, Carl Johann
<a href="http://search.library.vcu.edu/VCU:all_scope:VCU_ALMA21397764960001101" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia Health Bulletin</a> Health Sciences Library, VCU Libraries
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This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Learn more: <br /><br />Influenza Catechism (1918), <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067921224&view=2up&seq=604&size=125" target="_blank" title="Advice from the Virginia State Board of Health, 1918" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Virginia Health Bulletin</em></a>, (<em>X,</em>10). <br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/395xRj3" target="_blank" title="materials related to influenza in the Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Influenza</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=public+health" target="_blank" title="materials related to public health in the Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Public health</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal