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T1 GOvernment services
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD August 27
VO 140
IS 17
SP 1346
OP 1346
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900520032015
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900520032015
AB PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE 
    HISTORY OF PLAGUE IN THE U. S. 
    The communicable disease center at Atlanta, an agency of the U. S. Public Health Service, has published in its bulletin an illustrated history of plague in the United States, along with other articles on the treatment and control of plague. The following chart, including that of Hampton's in Public Health Reports of Nov. 16, 1945, shows the number of cases and deaths from plague up through 1947.DR. VELDEE RETIRES 
    Dr. Milton V. Veldee, who had been detailed for twenty years to the National Institute of Health, is now on terminal leave in anticipation of his retirement. His various assignments during the years included service with the American Red Cross in Russia in 1920, medical advisor to the American Consul in Denmark and chief of the Laboratory of Biologics Control since 1931 of the National Institute of Health. His