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Smallpox in Colorado
Modupe Labode
Colorado History NOW  June 2005

City of Denver.  Report of the Bureau of Health for the year 1895.

-----. Rules of the Bureau of Health in Regard to Schools and Contagious Diseases. 1895.

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. “Smallpox.” Retrieved April 21, 1905.  Available at: www.cdphe.state.co.us/bt/smallpox/smallpox.html  

-----. “Smallpox: the disease, vaccination, and preparedness.”  August 2004.

Colorado State Board of Health.  Sanitary Bulletin.  April, May, September 1907.

Colorado Historical Society
CWA Files:Health—Epidemics
Health Vertical Files

Cook, Noble David.  Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Daily Press (Cripple Creek):
“Smallpox is Rampant in Denver”/ “Barbarity of City Officials.” 9 March 1901.
“All the Miners Feel Aggrieved.” 31 March 1901: 1
“About Vaccination.” 2 April 1901: 4.
“Notice.” 4 April 1901: 6

Denver Post
“208 Vaccinated in Hour Tuesday.”  24 October 1922: 12.
“Resolved into a Question of Professional Veracity.”  10 January 1902: 10.
“ ‘Take Care’ says Clough.”  23 January 1902: 3

Department of Homeland Security.  “Smallpox Frequently Asked Questions.”  Retrieved April 21, 2005.  Available at: www.dhs.gov/dhspublic

Glynn, Ian and Jenifer.  The Life and Death of Smallpox (Cambridge: Cambridge     University Press, 2004).

Hopkins, Donald R.  Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).

Koplow, David.  Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge (Berkleley: University of California Press, 2003).

Magruder, A.C.  “Small Pox and Pregnancy.”  Colorado Medical Journal (February 1902): 59-61.

Oldstone,  Michael B. A.  Viruses, Plagues and History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

Preston, Richard.  “Demon in the Freezer.”  New Yorker (July 12, 1999): 44-61.  Retrieved April 1, 2005.  Available at: http://crptome.org/smallpox-wmd.htm

Robertson, R.G.  Rotting Face: Smallpox and the American Indian (Caldwell, ID: Caxton Press, 2001).

Rothwell, P.D. “What the physicians and people of Colorado need more than a medical bill.”  Transactions of the Colorado State Medical Society (June 1899): 231-244.

Sharpley, W.H.  “The Health of the City,” Denver Medical Times (April 1908): 361-364.

Shikes, Robert.  Rocky Mountain Medicine (Boulder: Johnson Books, 1986).

Simmons, Virginia McConnell. The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000).

“Smallpox and its prevention.”  Colorado Medical Journal (July 1900): 303-304.

Tucker, Jonathan B.  Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox (New York:Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001).

“Vaccination.”  Colorado Medical Journal (February 1900): 59-60.

Victor Daily Record
“They Object to Vaccination.” 29 March 1901, p.1.

Woodring, W.W.  “Variola, Small Pox.”  Colorado Medical Journal (November 1900): 490-493.