1936, service. This Public Health service film shows activities of the diseasefighting service. This Program Includes graphic scenes of disease that may be disturbing to some viewers. music the United 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 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 second built in boston, massachusetts. Some medical personnel were utilized by both the union and the confederacy for the care of wounded forces. It frequently happened that medical officers of the early Marin
Disturbing to some viewers. Narrator the United States Public Health service as it exists today is a product of experience extending over nearly 150 years. A was initially created as Marine Hospital service for the care of sick and disabled seamen. It was activated in an active congress signed by president john adams in 1798. 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 the secondrginia, built in boston, massachusetts. Some medical personnel were utilized by both the union and the confederacy for the care of wounded forces. Frequently happened that medical officers of the early Marine Hospitals were the first diagnose diseases such as cholera. The work of the service became of such increasing importance that congress extended its duties until it became in functio
It was originally created as a Marine Hospital service, for the purpose of providing medical care for sick and disabled seamen. It was established by an act of congress, signed by president 16, johnon july adams on july 16, 1978. The service was originally supported by a tax on american merchant seamen, but this was later abolished. The tax was collected by the collector of the customs of 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, was purchased. The second was built in boston, massachusetts. Some medical personnel were utilized by both the union and the confederacy for the care of wounded military forces. It frequently happened that medical officers of the early Marine Hospitals were the first physicians to diagnose diseases such as cholera and smallpox, which seriously endangered the Public Health at ports of entry. As time went on, the work of the service
As 50 million would be dead. In the United States, the death toll reached 675, 000, five times the number of u. S. Soldiers killed in world war i. What was that deadly threat . [bell tolls] music [bell tolls] many people died. We had just come from a few years before from mexico, where we were living. On account of the mexican revolution. I was the oldest, about 10 years old. My Four Brothers and sisters of the family, only my dad and my sister did not get it. My two brothers were in one room sick, i was sick in the other bedroom with my mother. My poor dad and sister had to be our attendants and do what they could do for us. Influenza gave you such high fever. Mother told me that i thought her black hair was a cat and i was afraid it was the delirium from the high fever. People are left very weak. Public schools and Public Places closed. I guess for nearly two or three weeks. music i was eight years old. We lived near my dads mother. She and her daughter and two grandchildren were liv
ot test. Test test n uqau this isnr ani vrac captioning to with my mother, my dad, and my four sisters. And people would do things for us. Influenza gave you such a high fever, mother told me that it was dilerium from an iv. People were left with a high fever and the schools, all of the Public Places and every place was closed. Officials res dated to close schools and other meeting places that would have reduced contact between the sick and the well. Hospitals and sfun really homes were overwhelmed and the workers that kept the city and their businesses running were too sick to get out of bed. They went around and got all of these men from down south to operate the mills and there was thousands of mills coming. My father worked for a steel company, and the only black baker they ever had was my father, henry lindsey. But people were very kind to one another. In the morning, they come back and he was dead. We didnt visit nobody. Nobody visited us except this lady. This mrs. Thorton. She