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History: Bureau of Public Roads, established effective July 1, 1918, by redesignation of Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering, transferred to FWA by Reorganization Plan No. I of 1939, effective July 1, 1939, and redesignated Public Roads Administration.
Traces the development of the sanitary and health problems of New York City from earliest Dutch times to the culmination of a nineteenth-century reform movement...
New York City Department of Health The Board of Health for New York City and Brooklyn was founded in 1866. in 1870, the State Legislature passed a new charter establishing ten departments, one of which was the Health Department. This new Department replaced the Board of Health and was only responsible for New York City, not Brooklyn.
Highway Research at the Bureau of Public Roads, 1918-1940 came a hallmark of agricultural research situations; after 1900 it also applied to the new National Bureau of Standards.5
In this book, Duffy provides a fascinating and beautifully documented short history of many important aspects of life in New York City over the 100 year period—sanitation, water, food, housing, schools, hospitals, clinics, health centers, diseases, medical care, and the general state of medicine.
public health leadership began in the early 1800s, when the city controlled epidemics of Yellow Fever and cholera. In the early 1900s, the Department opened the first public health laboratory that applied bacteriological knowledge to prevent and control disease. In the late 1900s, the Department implemented model programs to fight new and re ...
1 Απρ 2010 · Abstract. New York City approached the 1918 influenza epidemic by making use of its existing robust public health infrastructure. Health officials worked to prevent the spread of contagion by distancing healthy New Yorkers from those infected, increasing disease surveillance capacities, and mounting a large-scale health education campaign while ...
