1912 – N. Y. City adopted the first milk grading system The New York City Department of Health, which was represented on the commission, adopted a system of grading on January 4, 1912, at which time the regulations provided for three grades of milk, as follows: Grade A, for infants and children, including: Certified, guaranteed,…
Robeson County, North Carolina established the first strictly rural county health department in the Uniteted States. The county health movement was a direct outgrowth of measures carried on from 1910 to 1915 against hookworm, typhoid fever, and other diseases. Guilford County in 1911 became the first county in the state to establish a health department. On…
The establishment of the Division of Industrial Hygiene in the Labor Department of the State of New York and the Office of Industrial Hygiene and Sanitation of the U.S. Public Health Service in 1913 and the Industrial Hygiene Section of the American Public Health Association in 1914 signaled the beginnings of industrial hygiene as a…