The Public Health Service: Its History, Activities and OrganizationJohns Hopkins Press, 1923 - 298 pages |
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... country . Its gross expenditures amount to billions annually . Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments , more than half a million persons are re- quired to do the work imposed by law upon the executive branch of ...
... country . Its gross expenditures amount to billions annually . Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments , more than half a million persons are re- quired to do the work imposed by law upon the executive branch of ...
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... country , the planning and execution of works of an engineer- ing character , or the collection , compilation and publication of statistical data , or what differences of practice prevail in re- spect to organization , classification ...
... country , the planning and execution of works of an engineer- ing character , or the collection , compilation and publication of statistical data , or what differences of practice prevail in re- spect to organization , classification ...
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... country for the benefit of sick and disabled American seamen . The first marine hospital operated by the government was the one at Washington Point , Norfolk , purchased in 1800 . By 1802 hospitals had been opened at Norfolk , Boston ...
... country for the benefit of sick and disabled American seamen . The first marine hospital operated by the government was the one at Washington Point , Norfolk , purchased in 1800 . By 1802 hospitals had been opened at Norfolk , Boston ...
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... countries should advise the Supervising Surgeon General re- garding the appearance of contagious diseases in any foreign port or the departure of any vessel from such a port for the United States . They were also required to report the ...
... countries should advise the Supervising Surgeon General re- garding the appearance of contagious diseases in any foreign port or the departure of any vessel from such a port for the United States . They were also required to report the ...
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... country and their spread from one state to another resulted in the passage of the act of February 15 , 1893 ( 27 Stat . L. , 449 ) , which is still in force and which gives authority for all existing domes- tic and maritime quarantine ...
... country and their spread from one state to another resulted in the passage of the act of February 15 , 1893 ( 27 Stat . L. , 449 ) , which is still in force and which gives authority for all existing domes- tic and maritime quarantine ...
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32 Stat 41 Stat 67th Congress act of July act of March activities administration alien Annual Report appointed appropriation act approved April 29 Army arsphenamine beneficiaries Board for Vocational boards of health Bureau cent charge commissioned officers Cong Congress contract hospitals coöperation director discharged soldiers dispensary District of Columbia Division of Venereal duty employees establishment expenses Federal Board fiscal year 1920 foreign port Govt grade Health and Marine health officer hospital treatment Hygienic Laboratory Ibid infected inspection of immigrants interstate investigations June 27 June 30 leprosy Marine Hospital Service medical inspection ment municipal Navy necessary operated organization patients personnel persons pital President prevention Public Health Service quarantine quarantine stations relief Risk Insurance salary sanitation seamen Secretary Section Service hospitals sess Social Hygiene Board specific statistics studies Supervising Surgeon tion trachoma transferred United States Public venereal diseases vessels Veterans War Risk Insurance Washington yellow fever
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Page 21 - ... the United States, and that notwithstanding the quarantine defense this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce the same is demanded in the interest of the public health, the President shall have power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate and for such period of time as he may deem necessary.
Page viii - To lay the basis for such a comprehensive study of the organization and operations of the national government as President Taft outlined, the Institute for Government Research has undertaken the preparation of a series of monographs, of which the present study is one, giving a detailed description of each of the fifty or more distinct services of the government. These studies are being vigorously prosecuted, and it is hoped that all services of the government will be covered in a comparatively brief...
Page 235 - An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1918. and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, '
Page v - THE INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT RESEARCH STUDIES IN ADMINISTRATION. The System of Financial Administration of Great Britain. By WF Willoughby, WW Willoughby, and SM Lindsay. 378 pp. $3. The Budget. By Rene Stourm.
Page 43 - ... or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living...
Page 17 - Treasury is hereby charged with the duty of executing the provisions of this act and with supervision over the business of immigration to the United States, and for that purpose he shall have power to enter into contracts with such State commission, board, or officers as may be designated for that purpose by the governor of any State to take charge of the local affairs of immigration in the ports within said State...
Page 133 - The Public Health Service may study and investigate the diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage and the pollution either directly or indirectly of the navigable streams and lakes of the United States...
Page 89 - Treasury (1) to study and investigate the cause, treatment, and prevention of venereal diseases; (2) to cooperate with State boards or departments of health for the prevention and control of such diseases within the States; and (3) to control and prevent the spread of these diseases in interstate traffic : Provided.
Page 183 - They differ from those outlines, however, in that whereas the Commission's report showed only organization units, the presentation herein has been carried far enough to show the personnel embraced in each organization unit. These outlines are of value not merely as an effective means of making known the organization of the several services. If kept revised to date by the services, they constitute exceedingly important tools of administration.
Page vii - This vast organization has never been studied in detail as one piece of administrative mechanism. Never have the foundations been laid for a thorough consideration of the relations of all of its parts. No comprehensive effort has been made to list its multifarious activities or to group them in such a way as to present a clear picture of what the government is doing. Never has a complete description been given of the agencies through which these activities are performed. At no time...