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OPERATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.

1917.

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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SURGEON GENERAL OF

THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE,

Washington, D. C., October 6, 1917.

SIR: In accordance with the act of July 1, 1902, I have the honor to submit for transmission to Congress the following report of the operations of the Public Health Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. This is the forty-sixth annual report of the service, covering the one hundred and nineteenth year of its existence.

The administrative organization of the bureau has been the same as heretofore, its field work being conducted through seven divisions, as follows:

(1) Scientific Research.

(2) Foreign and Insular (maritime) Quarantine and Immigration.

(3) Domestic (interstate) Quarantine.

(4) Sanitary Reports and Statistics.

(5) Marine Hospitals and Relief.

(6) Personnel and Accounts.

(7) Miscellaneous.

The administrative personnel of the bureau during the year has consisted of the following:

Surg. Gen. Rupert Blue.

Asst. Surg. Gen. A. H. Glennan, in charge of Division of Personnel and Accounts.

Asst. Surg. Gen. W. G. Stimpson, in charge of Division of Marine Hospitals and Relief.

Asst. Surg. Gen. J. W. Kerr, in charge of Division of Scientific Research.

Asst. Surg. Gen. W. C. Rucker, in charge of Division of Domestic Quarantine.

Asst. Surg. Gen. R. H. Creel, in charge of Division of Foreign and Insular Quarantine and Immigration.

Asst. Surg. Gen. J. W. Trask, in charge of Division of Sanitary Reports and Statistics.

Chief Clerk, D. S. Masterson.

Certain functions of the service are administered jointly by two or more of the bureau divisions. As an instance, the epidemic of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) which occurred in New York and elsewhere during the fiscal year may be cited. Through the division of Domestic (interstate) Quarantine measures for the prevention of the spread of the disease in interstate traffic were instituted. Thẹ Division of Scientific Research inaugurated laboratory studies and

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