| Description |
viii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Note |
"This special collection of Public Health Reports articles is sponsored by Delta Omega"--p. iv. |
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Historical photographs provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Division of History of Medicine (HMD). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Bulletins, no. 1, Office Surgeon General, U.S.M.H.S. (1878) -- Formaldehyde as a disinfecting agent and it's practical application (1897) -- Plague in San Francisco (1900) -- Porto Rico: report on the high mortality on the island (1900) -- Experimental transmission of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever by means of a tick (1906) -- Smallpox and vaccination in Cuba (1911) -- Experimental measles in the monkey (1911) -- Hookworm disease (1913) -- A model state law for morbidity reports (1913) -- The etiology of pellagra (1914) -- Quinine prophylaxis for malaria (1914) -- Typhus fever (1915) -- Mental examination of immigrants: administration and line inspection at Eliis Island (1917) -- Undetermined disease - Valencia (1918) -- Health insurance, the medical profession, and the public health (1919) -- War activities of the United States Public Health Service (1919) -- The Public Health Program of the United States Training Corps for Women (1919) -- Coordination and expansion of federal health activities (1919) -- The epidemiology of influenza (1919) -- The prevalence and trend of drug addiction in the United States and factors influencing it (1924) -- A state-wide milk sanitation program (1924) -- The incidence of influenza among persons of different economic status during the epidemic of 1918 (1931) -- Trends in diphtheria mortality (1933) -- Endemic fluorosis and its relation to dental caries (1938) -- Sulfanilamide in the treatment of leprosy (1942) -- Radiation exposure in the United States (1953) -- Untreated syphilis in the male Negro (1954) -- Poliomyelitis vaccine (1955) -- The first 12 years of WHO (1958) -- Health needs of the nation (1961) -- Governmental responsibilities in environmental health (1961) -- Physicians for the Underserved (1980) -- The health consequences of smoking: cancer, Overview of a report of the Surgeon General (1982) -- The need for professional doctors of public health (1986) -- Surgeon General's report on acquired immune deficiency syndrome (1987). |
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United States. Public Health Service.
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United States. Public Health Service. |
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Public health reports (Washington, D.C.)
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Public health -- United States.
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Public health. |
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Rinsky, Robert A.
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United States. Public Health Service.
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Association of Schools of Public Health.
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Delta Omega.
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| Added Title |
Public health reports (Washington, D.C.). Historical collection 1878-2005.
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