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Bacteriology/history , Brucellosis/history , Animals , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , United StatesABSTRACT
The United States Pulic Health Service traces its origin back to an act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen signed into law on July 16, 1798. This paper discusses the evolution of the system of marine hospitals set up under this law into a federal public health agency that was eventually named the Pulic Health Service in 1912.
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Naval Medicine/history , Public Health Administration/history , United States Public Health Service/history , History, 18th Century , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , United StatesABSTRACT
Leprosy is a disease which has long been stigmatized and persons afflicted with it have frequently been segregated from the rest of society. This paper focuses on the evolution of policies concerning the confinement of patients at the national leprosarium operated by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) at Carville, Louisiana. After a brief review of the origins of the Lousiana Leper Home, which eventually became the national leprosarium, the paper traces changing attitudes and policies at Carville from 1921, when the PHS took control of the facility, to the 1950s.
