The National Board of Health was created by law on March 3.

On December 21, Congress appropriated funds 'for investigating the origin and causes of epidemic diseases, especially yellow fever and cholera.' 1879 The first Federal Quarantine Act was passed April 29. Woodworth's progress in reorganizing the Marine Hospital Service, his title was changed by law to supervising Surgeon General on March 3. 1875Ī bill passed on March 3 authorized admission of Navy seamen and seamen of other government services to Marine hospitals on a reimbursable basis. Regulations were approved on December 1 for appointment and promotion of physicians in the Marine Hospital Service, establishing the first career service for civilian employees in the Federal Government. John Maynard Woodworth was appointed supervising surgeon of the Marine Hospital Service in April, marking the beginning of central control of Marine hospitals. 1870Ī bill dated June 29 provided for administration of Marine hospitals within a Bureau of the Treasury Department with a medical officer in charge. John Shaw Billings, M.D., was assigned to supervise the Surgeon General's Library, which he built into a national resource of biomedical literature. The Library of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army was established (the present National Library of Medicine). He was the first to introduce interns and residents into hospitals in the United States. Benjamin Waterhouse was appointed physician in charge of the Boston Marine Hospital on November 27. The first permanent Marine hospital was authorized on May 3 to be built in Boston, Mass. The admission of foreign seamen to Marine hospitals on a reimbursable basis was authorized on May 3.

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