Purpose of the Public Health
Service
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The Public Health Service, under the Surgeon
General, was charged with matters relating to the protection and improvement
of the public health.
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| Its authorized functions were research and
promotion of research relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control,
and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of people,
control of biologic products, cooperation with state and other health agencies,
prevention of the introduction of disease from abroad or the spread of
disease in the United States, medical care of legal beneficiaries, and
the dissemination of health information.
The Public Health Service also played a crucial
health role in military operations during wartime. |
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Structure of the Public Health
Service
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| Components |
Head Ranks |
| Public Health Service Headquarters |
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Surgeon General |
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Deputy Surgeon General |
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| National Institute of Health |
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Assistant Surgeon General, Director |
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Bureau of State Services
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States Relations Division |
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Division of Venereal Diseases
(as Venereal Disease Division) |
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Industrial Hygiene Division
(newly established in 1943) |
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Assistant Surgeon General, Chief |
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Assistant Surgeon General, Associate Chief |
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Bureau of Medical Services
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Division of Marine Hospitals and
Relief
(as Hospital Division) |
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Division of Mental Hygiene |
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Division of Foreign and Insular
Quarantine and Immigration (as Foreign Quarantine Division) |
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Assistant Surgeon General, Chief |
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| War Shipping Administration |
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Assistant Surgeon General, Chief Medical Officer |
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| Division of Commissioned Officers |
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| Division of Dentistry |
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| Division of Engineering Sanitary |
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| United States Coast Guard |
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| Division of Public Health Methods |
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Division of Nurse Education
(Cadet Nurse Corps) |
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Office of International Health Relations
(established 1945) |
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Surgeon General of the Public
Health Service Thomas Parran, April 6, 1936 to April 5, 1948
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Note: PHS Reorganization Order No. 1, dated
December 30, 1943, implemented the Public Health Service Act (57 Stat.
587) of November 11, 1943. It established two headquarters components,
the Bureau of Medical Services and Bureau of State Services.
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Retained by the immediate Office of the Surgeon
General were Division of Personnel and Accounts (split into Civil Service
Personnel Section and Budget and Fiscal Office, both under the Deputy Surgeon
General, and Division of Commissioned Officers) and Division of Sanitary
Reports and Statistics, which was absorbed into Division of Public Health
Methods which had been transferred from the National Institute of Health. |
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Purpose of the PHS
Structure of the PHS
Types of Duty
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[ I. Development ]..[
II. Facts about the PHS ]..[
III. PHS Uniforms ]..[
IV. Sources ]
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