New York (State). Dept. of Health. Division of Communicable Diseases.

The Division, created in 1906, absorbed the advisory and investigative functions of the Bureau of Epidemics and Infectious Diseases and the case-recording functions previously handled by the Bureau of Instruction and Publication.

For most communicable disease, the Division handled case-reporting, analysis of case statistics, epidemiological investigations, and research on the use of new methods of disease control. Its staff also advised district and local health officers, monitored populations such as chronic typhoid carriers, and allocated federal and state funds for disease control trials and for special medical categories of personnel assistance. Diseases to be reported were specifed in the State Sanitary Code, formalized in L. 1913, Chap. 559 as the responsibility of the Public Health Council. The list grew from seven diseases in the 1910s to 38 diseases in the 1940s. It varied in content as new drug therapies eliminated some diseases or made them easier to contain, and new dangers were associated with others.

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