Metropolitan Information Service notice regarding smallpox vaccination
Collection
Identifier: MSS 481
Scope and Contents
This informational notice from the Metropolitan Information Service argues the benefits of vaccination. It notes the decreased deaths from smallpox among American soldiers during the war and also cites numbers from American troops stationed in the Philippines during the smallpox epidemic in 1918-1919. The notice also compares cases in states with different laws regarding compulsory vaccination and addresses fears about the dangers of vaccination by explaining that careful administration reduces the risk of infection.
Dates
- circa 1925
Creator
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Organization)
Biographical / Historical
Metropolitan Information Service was likely a division of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company responsible for disseminating information about health and safety to members. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company later published booklets, pamphlets, and other literature for the public and distributed it via the Welfare Division. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company was founded in 1863 as the National Union Life and Limb Insurance Company and opened in 1868 as Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Today the company is known as MetLife.
Extent
0.01 Linear feet (1 folder) : Small Collections
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Organization)
- Author
- Rayna Andrews
- Date
- 2026 July 9
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Digitization of this collection was supported by a Federal Save America's Treasures grant administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository
Contact:
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
