Business Records, 1871-1882

The bulk of this series consists of cancelled checks and receipts written by Baltimore Health Commissioners and the Baltimore Board of Health from 1871 to 1882. They document the destruction of clothing of infected residents during the epidemic, payment for vaccines, vaccination physicians, and advertising in the newspaper about the epidemic. A list of goods destroyed is also included. There is also documentation of expenses from the Baltimore Commissioner of Health for internments, burials, destruction of clothing, and moving patients to hospitals. Arrangement is chronological, and alphabetical for items with the same date.