City of New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
ID Number
2017.0184.058
accession number
2017.0184
catalog number
2017.0184.058
Description
Glass and metal hypodermic syringe with an “IDEAL / CITY OF NEW YORK” inscription on the side, and a “487” serial number. The “EAST RUTHERFORD SYRINGES” inscription on the box refers a New Jersey firm that built a factory in the early 1930s, and that acquired a new facility in 1955, primarily for distributing syringes for the new Salk polio vaccine.