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Public Health Service

a bureau of the United States Treasury Department, formerly going under the name of the Marine Hospital Service.

The officials in its service have the work of managing the marine hospitals and relief stations established for men in the American merchant marine who are ill or disabled. It is also charged with the supervision of the quarantine stations, American merchant marine who are ill ination of literature relating to mortality and health, including the examination of persons from abroad who may or disabled. It is also charged with the supervision of the quarantine stations, The Public Health Service dates from the year 1798, and its duties have developed considerably from that time. At first it was charged with the supervision