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Epidemics & Public Health
Epidemics: the Sickly Season, the Flu, and the Diseases That Left No Township Number
Branch pass · 1837 – 2021
The township's epidemic history begins with a season so sick that "there were not enough well ones to care for the sick." The 1875 county Atlas, read first-hand, carries the fever-and-ague era's testimony whole: the prevailing…
The January 1920 return, the tuberculosis regime, and the polio seat
1919–1950s · the counted and the uncounted, stated
The influenza came back in the first weeks of 1920, and the federal record counts it for Indiana — not for this township. The banked fragment carries the January 1920 return at pointer. The settler reached in this section is the…
Boards, officers, and the county department: the succession at reached strength
1865–2015 · city board to county department
The line runs from a city board of three men to a two-office county department, and the middle of it is still gapped. South Bend's first city council, on 12 June 1865, elected Dr. I. N. Green, Clement Studebaker and Norman Eddy…
COVID after February 2021: the orders, the vaccination campaign, and the toll's course
2020–2021 · the county department's own record
The banked fragment stops the pandemic in February 2021; the county's own summaries carry it forward week by week. The orders came first. St. Joseph County Public Health Orders 1-2020 and 2-2020 imposed the county's face-covering…