Box 4

Collection Summary From the Collection: Public Health Service (PHS) hospitals have treated merchant seamen and other PHS beneficiaries since 1798. As part of an evolving network of hospital and clinic care, the hospitals experienced in the twentieth century their greatest expansion and also their demise. The papers in the PHS Hospitals Historical Collection, accumulated over the course of many years, chronicle the activities, administration, and closure of the hospitals, especially since 1950. Found first in this...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Public Health Service (PHS) hospitals have treated merchant seamen and other PHS beneficiaries since 1798. As part of an evolving network of hospital and clinic care, the hospitals experienced in the twentieth century their greatest expansion and also their demise. The papers in the PHS Hospitals Historical Collection, accumulated over the course of many years, chronicle the activities, administration, and closure of the hospitals, especially since 1950. Found first in this...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Public Health Service (PHS) hospitals have treated merchant seamen and other PHS beneficiaries since 1798. As part of an evolving network of hospital and clinic care, the hospitals experienced in the twentieth century their greatest expansion and also their demise. The papers in the PHS Hospitals Historical Collection, accumulated over the course of many years, chronicle the activities, administration, and closure of the hospitals, especially since 1950. Found first in this...

Collection Summary From the Collection: Public Health Service (PHS) hospitals have treated merchant seamen and other PHS beneficiaries since 1798. As part of an evolving network of hospital and clinic care, the hospitals experienced in the twentieth century their greatest expansion and also their demise. The papers in the PHS Hospitals Historical Collection, accumulated over the course of many years, chronicle the activities, administration, and closure of the hospitals, especially since 1950. Found first in this...