Proposed ten-year postwar program of the United States Public Health Service / Thomas Parran, 1944.

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Proposed ten-year postwar program of the United States Public Health Service / Thomas Parran, 1944.

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Program is divided into activities of U.S. Public Health Service, Office of Surgeon General, National Institute of Health, Bureau of Medical Services, and Bureau of State Services. Collection contains 2 copies.

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Parran, Thomas, 1892-1968

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Physician, Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas Parran : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451560 Thomas Parran, Jr. was born on September 28, 1892 and raised near St. Leonard's, Maryland, on his family's tobacco farm. He attended St. John's College in Annapolis (1911, A.B.; 1915, A.M.). Finances influenced his decision to attend Georgetown (1915, M.D.) and to follow with an...

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...