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Telegram from El Paso Mayor to Surgeon General Calling for Quarantine Item Info
- Title:
- Telegram from El Paso Mayor to Surgeon General Calling for Quarantine
- Creator:
- Tom Lea
- Date Created:
- 6/17/1916
- Description:
- Telegram: "Hundreds dirty lousey destitute Mexicans arriving at El Paso daily will undoubtedly bring and spread typhus unless a quarantine is placed at once. The City of El Paso backed by its medical board and state federal and militia officials feel that the government should put on a quarantine."
- Subjects:
- telegram quarantine discrimination typhus
- Location:
- El Paso, TX
- Latitude:
- 31.75899691
- Longitude:
- -106.4902056
- Source:
- Portal to Texas History
- Source Identifier:
- rlr_034
- Type:
- Telegram
- Format:
- application/pdf
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Telegram from El Paso Mayor to Surgeon General Calling for Quarantine", Recovering Latinx Resistance, US Latino Digital Humanities
- Reference Link:
- https://dfr2024.github.io/recoveringlatinxresistancepilot/items/rlr_034.html