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Records dating from the twentieth century are varied and small
in volume. They include some public relations material,
administrative reports, and some files from the federally funded
Women, Infant Care (WIC) program.
Series
1
HRS Records. 1798-1882. 12.6 cu. ft. (28 boxes).
Arranged sequentially by HRS assigned numbers.
Index.
Quarantine Records. 1881-1918.
Arranged chronologically.
6 lin. in. (3 vols.).
Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Poor for Baltimore
City and County and Board Minutes of Subsequent Agencies.
1833-1935. 2 reels of microfilm.
Arranged chronologically.
Maps, Charts, and Miscellaneous Items, ca.1930-50.
3 lin. in. (1 folder and 1 vol.).
No arrangement.
Bureau of Communicable Disease Scrapbooks. 1933, 1936-37.
0.45 cu. ft. (1 box).
Arranged chronologically.
Commission of Health Weekly Letters to the Mayor. 1965-75.
0.90 cu. ft. (2 boxes).
WIC Administrative Chronological Files
0.45 cu. ft. (1 box).
1973-79.
WIC Administrative Subject Files.
Arranged by subject.
1975-80. 1 lin. in.
House of Industry Records. 1817-23. 0.25 lin. in.
Arranged sequentially by HRS assigned numbers.
Index.
Commissioner of Health Correspondence
6 lin. in. (2 vols.).
Arranged chronologically.
1913-15.
RG 20 Fire Department (1862-present)
History
Efforts to prevent and combat fires date back to the earliest
days of Baltimore. The first attempt to provide fire protection came
in 1747 through a law specifying fines for unsafe chimneys and houses
not having ladders that reached to the top of their roofs. The
origins of an organized fire department developed with creation of
voluntary fire companies - the Mechanical (1763), Union (1782),
Friendship (1785), and Deptford (1792).
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