Abstract

Although communicable diseases proved more difficult to combat in overcrowded cities (with their “rental barracks” and inadequate sanitation), disease in the countryside was hardly a thing of the past in Bismarckian Germany.

Child Vaccination in the Countryside (1866)

Rudolph Geißler

Source

Source: Ländliche Kinderimpfung [Child Vaccination in the Countryside]. Wood engraving (1866) after a drawing by Rudolph Geissler.
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Recommended Citation

Child Vaccination in the Countryside (1866), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/forging-an-empire-bismarckian-germany-1866-1890/ghdi:image-1361> [April 25, 2024].

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