![A shelter with a row of cots and boxes of supplies](images/hurricane_andrew_sm.jpg) | | In the wake of Hurricane Andrew (1992), PHS officers set up emergency shelters and clinics such as this one to care for and treat people who had been caught in the hurricane. |
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![A man sitting on a chair suspended from a rope connecting two ships at sea](images/boatswain_sm.jpg) | | In 1943, PHS physician James Todd, based on a Coast Guard ship, uses a boatswain's chair to reach an injured seaman on a merchant ship in the Mediterranean. |
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![Doctor looking in a vietnamese boy's mouth](images/vietnam_sm.jpg) | | PHS physician Stuart Mackler examines a Vietnamese boy while serving on a Coast Guard ship, 1967. |
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![Cartoon depiction of a health officer beating back the dogs of various contagious diseases](images/ww1_cartoon_sm.jpg) | | The Public Health Service worked with local departments of health during World War I to keep the areas around military training camps free of disease, as depicted in this cartoon. |