Among others entiled to examination by the Public Health Service are the personnel of the United States Coast Guard. civilservice employees suspected of having tuberculosis. civilservice employees for retirement. members of the citizens military training camps. officers in the Reserve Corps of the United States Army. appli.cants for pensions. and some others. Civil employees of the Government in interstate travel and those handling the mail are entitled to vaccination by the service against smallpox and typhoid fever. The service is also charged with the duty of preventing the Introduction of quarantinable diseases into the United States and Its insular possessions from foreign countries. namely. bubonic plague. cholera. yellow fever. typhus fever. and smallpox. of making a medical examination and certification of immigrant aliens. of preventing the interstate spread of epidemic diseases. especially yellow fever and cholera. of studying the cause. treatment. and prevention of venereal diseases and cooperating with the States in the control thereof. of collecting and distributing information relating to the prevalence and geographic incidence of diseases dangerous to public health. in short. it is the duty of the service. in the language of the statute. to study and investigate the diseases of man and the conditions Influencing the propagation and spread thereof. In 1902 the name of the service was changed from that of the United States Marine Hospital Service to the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. and. again. in 1912 to its present designation of United States Public Health Service. The service maintains 24 marine hospitals with a capacity ranging from 24 beds at Vineyard Haven.
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