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The Public Health Service's Division of Foreign Quarantine was responsible for preventing the importation of disease into the United States. Abroad it relied heavily on the work of United States consular officers, who were required to notify the Surgeon General immediately of the appearance of any infectious or contagious disease in a foreign port, and to provide information regarding vessels from infected ports bound for the United States. At home the division's medical officers helped man quarantine stations in the major ports and inspected crews of cargo vessels from foreign ports, such as pictured here.
c. 1930
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