The Medal of Honor of the United States Army
The Medal of Honor of the United States Army

Author: United States. Department of the Army. Public Information Division

Publisher:

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13:

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"The Medal of Honor was the first medal for which all enlisted men in the U.S. military could be nominated. A bill introduced by the junior senator from Massachusetts, Henry Wilson, on February 17, 1862, calling for the introduction of an army Medal of Honor, was fashioned after a navy medal bill signed by the President two months earlier. On July 12, 1862, Lincoln signed Wilson's bill into law, which called upon the President to present the Medal of Honor "in the name of Congress to such noncommissioned officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action and other soldier like qualities during the present insurrection." -- Medal of Honor website.

A History of Public Health
A History of Public Health

Author: George Rosen

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2015-04

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1421416018

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For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.

History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866
History of Public Health in New York City, 1625-1866

Author: John Duffy

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Published: 1968-10-15

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 1610441648

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Traces the development of the sanitary and health problems of New York City from earliest Dutch times to the culmination of a nineteenth-century reform movement that produced the Metropolitan Health Act of 1866, the forerunner of the present New York City Department of Health. Professor Duffy shows the city's transition from a clean and healthy colonial settlement to an epidemic-ridden community in the eighteenth century, as the city outgrew its health and sanitation facilities. He describes the slow growth of a demand for adequate health laws in the mid-nineteenth century, leading to the establishment of the first permanent health agency in 1866.