Your Kiss of Affection Poster

ID: 5415 ~ Source: Library of Congress - Tuberculosis Don't kiss me!: Your kiss of affection - the germ of infection / / JD. Hempstead New York, None. [New york: wpa federal art project, district 4, between 1936 and 1941] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/98516354/. ~ Creator: WPA Federal Art Project ~ Date: 1941

This file appears in: Edgecliff Sanitarium: The White Plague in Spokane

Due to the ways that tuberculosis was transferred health officials discouraged behaviors that could endanger the lives of the most vulnerable in society.

This file appears in: Edgecliff Sanitarium: The White Plague in Spokane

Edgecliff Sanitarium: The White Plague in Spokane

By RaeAnn Anderson

Tuberculosis was the most devastating disease of the 19th and 20th centuries. Isolation was the most effective public health intervention.