Annual reports-Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, 1921-1945.

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Kentucky. Bureau of Sanitary Engineering.

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United States. Federal Civil Works Administration

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The Civil Works Administration was established by EO 6420-B, November 9, 1933, under authority of the National Industrial Recovery Act (48 Stat. 200), June 16, 1933, to provide relief work for unemployed persons through public work projects. Functioned simultaneously, and to some extent with the same personnel, with Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Liquidated March 1934, and functions and records transferred to the Emergency Relief Program of FERA. From the description...

Kentucky. State Board of Health

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The Rockefeller Foundation sponsored health picnics in the 1920s to combat hookworm and diseases. From the description of Broadside, 1913 July 5. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49346818 ...

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...

United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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In order to counteract the effects of the Depression, the Federal Government founded numerous agencies geared at lowering unemployment and boosting the economy. Among these were the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), created on May 12, 1933; the Civil Works Administration (CWA), established on November 9, 1933; and the Works Progress Administration (WPA-1), established on May 6, 1935. The Civil Works Administration was abolished in March, 1934, with its functions and records transfe...

Kentucky. Dept. for Environmental Protection. Division of Water.

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Reports were submitted annually to the Secretary of the Department of Health by the bureau director who also served as the State Sanitary Engineer. Responsibilities of the bureau include supervising public water supplies, sewage plants, milk plants, and private water supplies including the promotion of sanitary toilets; providing laboratory services for chemical examination of water supplies; promoting malaria control; enforcing plumbing laws and regulations; and investigating stream pollution a...

Kentucky. Dept. of Health.

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