We provide medical and hospital care for all.beneficiaries of the Federal Employees Compensation Act. We operate quarantine stations at all principal ports of entry in this country. both of ships and airplanes. for the purpose of preventing the introduction in this country of disease from abroad. We have medical officers stationed at all of the principal American embassies and consulates abroad. for purposes of examining and certifying to the health status of prospective immigrants into this country. One of the major activities of the Public Health Service over the last 50 years has been in the field of research. Out at Bethesda. in our National Institute of Health. and in the field laboratories stationed in various parts of the country. we are engaged in a very elaborate and substantial program of research in the various specialties of health and medicine.
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