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In 1798, Congress established the Marine Hospital Fund, a network of hospitals that cared for sick and disabled seamen. The Marine Hospital Fund was reorganized along military lines in 1870 and became the Marine Hospital Service, the predecessor to today's United States Public Health Service. The service became a separate bureau of the Treasury Department with its own staff, administration, headquarters in Washington, D.C., and the position of supervising surgeon (later surgeon general). After 141 years under the Treasury Department, the Service came under the Federal Security Agency in 1939, then the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) in 1953, and finally the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).<\/p>" ], "recordInfo": { "recordIdentifier": [ "18107" ], "recordUpdatedDate": "2022-08-30 11:26:05", "recordCreationDate": "2022-05-24 11:47:49", "recordContentSource": [ { "$": "naf", "@authorityURI": "http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/names\/n79096730" }, { "$": "wikidata", "@authorityURI": "https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q476322" } ], "recordType": "author" }, "location": { "url": [ "https:\/\/fraser.stlouisfed.org\/author\/united-states-public-health-service" ], "apiUrl": [ "https:\/\/fraser.stlouisfed.org\/api\/author\/18107" ] } }