1923 – Ustanovljen je Higienski zavod v Ljubljani

V Ljubljani je bil leta 1923 ustanovljen Higienski zavod. Njegov prvi direktor je bil dr. Ivo Pirc. Delovanje zavoda je v začetku obsegalo le raziskovanje pitne vode. Leta 1925 se je združil z Bakteriološko postajo in potem deloval kot enoten zavod s tremi oddelki: bakteriološko-serološki oddelek, oddelek za preiskovanje vode in živil, higiensko-propagandno-didaktični oddelek. Kasneje so…

1912 – The U. S. Public Health Service began its studies on typhoid fever in rural areas

Frequent explosive outbreaks of typhoid fever in urban areas and the high morbidity and mortality rates in cities attributed to water supplies forced the nation’s attention in the early 1900s to the pollution of rivers and lakes. Congress enacted a law in 1912 authorizing the Public Health Service to conduct investigations of pollution of navigable…

1912 – County Health Department

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…

1910 – Standard Methods for the Examination of milk (1st Ed.)

Publication of the first edition of Standard  Methods for the Examination of milk by the American Public Health Association. Standard Methods for the Bacterial Examination of Milk by Committees of the Laboratory Section, American Public Health Association includes: Collection of Samples. Technique and Apparatus Method of making Apparatus. Technique Incubation and Counting Milk Sediments Special Bacteria and…

1909 – The Rockefeller Commission was established to rid the South of hookworm

The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease (RSC) was a separate organization created to eradicate hookworm disease in the American South. The work of the RSC was the first major attempt at disease eradication, and it provided a model for future work of the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) and its associated organizations, like the International…