TY - JOUR T1 - GOvernment services Y1 - 1949/08/27 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900520032015 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 1346 EP - 1346 VL - 140 IS - 17 N2 - 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 SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900520032015 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900520032015 ER -