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Letter from A. H. Glennan to Lawrence Kolb

Creator:: Glennan, Arthur Henry, 1853-1926
Title:: Letter from A. H. Glennan to Lawrence Kolb
Date:: 10 May 1915
Description:: Acting Surgeon General Glennan wrote to advise Kolb that the Life Saving Service and the Revenue Cutter Service were being merged to form the U.S. Coast Guard, which would make the LSS personnel eligiable for medical relief and disability retirement benefits. Kolb was ordered to do the physical exams of these new PHS members, including color vision tests, at 20 locations.
Rights:: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Format:: Text
Extent:: 3 pages
Language:: English
NLM ID:: 9918351284206676X10
Profiles Collection:: The Lawrence Kolb Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/9918351284206676X10
Story Section:: Early Years at the Public Health Service, 1909-1923
Exhibit Tags:: service
Recipient:: Kolb, Lawrence, 1881-1972