U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for April 24: Public Health
WASHINGTON, April 24, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
PUBLIC HEALTH
Profile America — Monday, April 24th. Early America certainly was a simpler society than that which we have today, but some of today's familiar institutions were part of the national experience over 220 years ago. On this date in 1795, the city of Baltimore set up a permanent, elected board of health, successor to the nation's first such appointed agency. The first board was created by Maryland's governor to cope with yellow fever epidemics beginning in 1792. Still, Baltimore was affected in 1794 and hundreds died as a result. Across the country, there are 1.25 million people employed in state and local government hospitals, and in health services. Over 700,000 are working at the local level. You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at <www.census.gov>.
Sources:
Kane's Famous First Facts, 4172
Yellow fever/accessed 2/2/2017:
bobarnebeck.com/history.html
Early health agency/accessed 2/2/2017:
msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/healloc.html
Baltimore deaths from yellow fever/accessed 2/2/2017: https://books.google.com/books?id=K6BlU1wPV7oC&pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&dq=bALTIMORE+YELLOW+FEVER+1794&source=bl&ots=TfymCm8H4p&sig=titZDMi4M5_izfuv4wUnpCqkjMk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PShCUeXDE5al4AP-yoA4&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=bALTIMORE%20YELLOW%20FEVER%201794&f=false
Public employment in health and hospitals/state and local: https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/GEP/2015/00A4
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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