CSPAN3 Reel America The Work Of The Public Health Service - 1936 July 13, 2024
States Public Health service as it exists today is a product of experience extending over nearly 150 years. It was initially created as a Marine Hospital service for the care of sick and disabled seamen. It was activated in an active congress signed by the second president john adams in 1798. The service was originally supported by a tax on american merchant seamen, but this was later abolished. The tax was collected by the treasury department. The Marine Hospital service came under the jurisdiction of that department, where it remains today. The first Marine Hospital in norfolk, virginia, the...