FREE: 1924 Preventable Disease, Cuban Refugees

The listing, 1924 Preventable Disease, Cuban Refugees has ended.

Theme auction for sickness, illness, disease....

1924 card
Bureau of Preventable Diseases
Connecticut State Department of Health
You can see the three spaces have been filled in red in typed, stating that a seven year old had Scarlet Fever, then below that, another who was five with Scarlet and another 7 year old. A very interesting card!

To the left of the card:
DISEASES REPORTABLE
Within 24 Hours
and a LONG list of illnesses, Suphillis, Small Pox,
German Measles, Whooping Cough plus lots more

Front side of card, duplex cancel on 1 CENT 1 Washington Nov. 1924

Duplex cancel is a two-part cancel, one part containing the postmark, and the other part with the cancellation.

There is a NOTICE on the left, desired for epidemiological purposes (Epidemiology is the science that studies the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations.)

Take a look at the image on the left RED CROSS Fdc!
Way cool image of tons ofpeople getting off a huge RED CROSS ship! reading:

CUBAN REFUGEES FROM THE
CASTRO REGIME DISEMBARK FROM
A RED CROSS MERCY VESSEL

Clara Maass
Heroic Nurse FDC
Gave her lfife during Yellow Fever
Research
with smaller image of her helping sickly man laying

Interesting AIDS awareness with red crossed ribbon stamp and on left, you see lady holding baby that reads:
HUGS DON'T SPREAD AIDS

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Winner receives all in 1st photo. Others are close up, back side, different angles etc.

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