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Public Health Service Circular letter No.79

Creator:: Blue, Rupert Lee, 1868-1948
Title:: Public Health Service Circular letter No.79
Date:: 30 October 1915
Description:: "Provisional Standard for Fumigation with Hydrocyanic Acid Gas" provided instructions for fumigating ship compartments when contagious disease was found by PHS officers.
Rights:: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Format:: Text
Extent:: 1 pages
Language:: English
NLM ID:: 9918351284206676X13
Profiles Collection:: The Lawrence Kolb Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/9918351284206676X13
Story Section:: Early Years at the Public Health Service, 1909-1923
Exhibit Tags:: service