New Yorkers receiving smallpox vaccines in 1947
This section contains historical information on the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the past three hundred and fifty years of public health works in New York City.
The Living City, produced by Columbia University The Living City is a digital library initiative intended to capture the experience of life, health, and urban transformation during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I. See NYCDOH documents and images from the 1860s - 1920s.