Queen’s Road East

People queue on September 1, 1961 to be vaccinated against cholera in front of a medical centre next to the 舊灣仔郵政局 (Old Wan Chai Post Office) in 香港 (Hong Kong), which was at the time a Crown Colony. Photo: AFP.

Overqueueing

In this April 14, 1947 picture, a long line winds toward the entrance to Morrisania Hospital in the Bronx borough of New York City, where doctors are inoculating against smallpox. In an attempt to halt the spread of the disease, officials said city residents were being vaccinated at the rate of eight a minute. Photo © AP.