Medical officials and public school administrators worked together to enforce a mandate that students receive the smallpox vaccine in 1855.
A vaccination campaign for schoolchildren in Schuylkill County in the 1850s

Medical officials and public school administrators worked together to enforce a mandate that students receive the smallpox vaccine in 1855.
A correspondent from the Pottsville Miners' Journal visits the front line picket post of the 96th Pennsylvania.