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1836 Hawaiian monarchs order foreigners screened for smallpox ... takes the first documented public health measure in Hawai‘i, ordering screening for smallpox on all foreign vessels ... |
1839 Kamehameha III makes quarantine laws Hawai‘i |
1845–48 A series of epidemics kills thousands in Hawai‘i Hawai‘i |
1848 Successive epidemics spread across U.S., Alaska, Hawai‘i ... areas in the western U.S., Alaska, and Hawai‘i for the first time, where Native peoples have ... Hawai‘i |
1850 Kamehameha III appoints a Board of Health King Kamehameha III establishes Hawai‘i’s first Board of Health to organize the response to epidemics and enforce sanitary provisions to protect public health. |
1853 Smallpox epidemic spreads to Hawai‘i Hawai‘i |
1854 Kamehameha IV turns to Western medicine to fight smallpox ... smallpox vaccinations for all in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i. ... Hawai‘i |
1863 Leprosy spreads Hawai‘i |
1865 First leprosy hospital established on O‘ahu Hawai‘i |
1866 Hawaiian leprosy patients sent to Moloka‘i Colony Hawai‘i |