Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 9. Hospital Register of the Erie County Alms House, October 1, 1854 – Oct
1867

Title

Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 9. Hospital Register of the Erie County Alms House, October 1, 1854 – Oct
1867

Description

Name, age, nativity, habits (temperate, intemperate), occupation, disease, time under treatment in days, stage of disease when admitted, date discharged, date cured, date died, remarks (notes on condition, cause of death, sent to Sisters of Charity Hospital, etc.). Common conditions included fevers, frost bite, syphilis, and pregnancy. Outbreaks of cholera and typhoid fever are recorded in 1854.

Date

1854-1867

Source

Erie County Poor House Ledgers

Publisher

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)

Rights

Digital image copyright 2021 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.

Relation

Digital Collections of the B&ECPL

Format

image/jpeg

Language

eng

Citation

Erie County Hospital (Buffalo, N.Y.), “Erie County Poor House Ledgers, Volume 9. Hospital Register of the Erie County Alms House, October 1, 1854 – Oct
1867,” B&ECPL Digital Collections, accessed November 21, 2024, https://digital.buffalolib.org/document/2101.