RT Journal
T1 CUrrent comment
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD March 4
VO 112
IS 9
SP 846
OP 846
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800090056016
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800090056016
AB BACTERIOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
    The bacteriologic investigations of the United States Public Health Service are often overlooked because of the better known activities of this agency in more publicized fields. Most of the original research of the service along these lines was done at the Hygienic Laboratory, the name of which was changed in 1930 to the National Institute of Health. The work of this branch of the service has been recently summarized in a condensed but impressive fashion.1 Especially noteworthy activities include the control of standards of biologic products for immunization and treatment, important work on disinfectants, especially with regard to fumigation and embalming procedures, and original investigations on encephalitis, leprosy, pellagra, plague, poliomyelitis and rabies, to mention only a few. A continuation of distinguished investigation in these and other fields may be confidently expected.CLINICAL STUDY OF DRUG ADDICTS 
    As one part of the extensive