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1996 Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47

1994 Israel and PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare and tourism

1994 Federica Montseny, anarchist/Sp minister of Health (1936), dies at 80

1991 Kimberly Bergalis, got AIDS from health care worker, dies at 23

1991 Frank Yerby, U.S. writer (Health Card, The Dahomean), dies at 75

1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress

1986 Fed health officials announce AZT will be available to AIDS patients

1980 Department of Health and Human Services begins operation

1980 World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated

1966 All U.S. cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"

1965 President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking

1964 FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages

1964 U.S. report "Smoking and Health" connects smoking to lung cancer

1964 1st government report warning smoking may be hazardous to one's health

1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare created

1953 Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council

1953 Oveta Culp Hobby becomes 1st at Health, Education, and Welfare

1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare established

1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)

1949 Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator

1948 U.N.'s World Health Organization forms

1948 Britain's National Health Service Act begins

1948 World Health Organization forms by U.N.

1948 Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health

1940 Anthony Fauci, U.S. health official

1939 Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president, Childrens Defense Fund

1938 Elizabeth H "Rina" Venter, South African minister of Health care

1935 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago)

1934 Dame Anne Poole, chief nursing officer, Department of Health

1934 Christopher France, British permanent secretary, Department of Health

1933 Louis W. Sullivan, U.S. Sec of Health and Human Services, 1989-

1932 Sister Vince Otto, mental health activist

1931 Margaret Heckler, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1983-85

1930 Morag Timbury, director, Central Public Health Laboratory

1930 Robin Buchanan, CEO, NHS Supplies Auth, Wessex Regional Health Auth

1930 William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons

1927 Ban Johnson, in failing health, retires as AL president

1919 Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health

1918 Irene Vorrink, Dutch minister, health and environment

1918 Faye Glenn Abdellan, U.S. government official, health services

1918 Otis R Bowen, U.S. Sec of Health and Human Services, 1985-89

1913 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts Health laws

1912 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect

1911 Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health

1905 Robert Houben, Belgian CVP-minister of Public health, 1958

1904 John Simon, public health pioneer, dies

1901 Rene Jules Dubos, France, U.S. microbiologist/author, Health and Disease

1866 New York Legislature forms New York City Metropolitan Board of Health

1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine

1824 Elisha Harris, U.S., physician/found American Public Health Assoc

1821 Mary Baker Eddy, founded Christian Science, Science and Health

1798 U.S. Public Health Service forms and U.S. Marine Hospital authorized

1594 Johan van Beverwijck, Dutch physician/writer, Treasure of Health



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