Work of the U. S. Public Health Service (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Work of the U. S. Public Health Service The domestic counterpart of this work known as domestic quarantine is that of preventing disease from areading across State borders or within States. Officers of the Marine Hospital Service were authorized fron time to tine to help local health authorities fight epidemics. Control of communi cable disease was eventually incorporated into the legal responsibility of the Service. A good example of the constant activity of the Public Health Service to keep disease from traveling is the inspection of water supplies and sanitary facilities of interstate carriers buses, trains and airplanes. Over the course of the years, the Public Health Service and the State governments worked into a close partnership to prevent disease and promote health. During the l930's, two notable pieces of legislation gave the Federal partner funds with which to back the work of the States by grants ih - aid Title VI of the Social Security Act and the Federal Venereal Dis ease Control Act. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.