Quarterly reports to the U.S. Public Health Service, 1936-1939, 1943-1945.
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Minnesota. Dept. of Health.
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The Health Facility Advisory Council was established in 1951 as the Health Facility Advisory Board [Minn. Laws 1951 c304 s9]. It was changed to council in 1975 [Minn. Laws 1975 c234]. Consisting of nine members representing the state's hospitals, homes for chronic convalescent patients, doctors, county welfare boards, and the commissioner of the health (and later, public welfare) department, the council assisted in the development and revision of rules that set the minimum standards for Minnesot...
United States. Public Health Service
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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...
