United States. Public Health Service. Commissioned Corps

found: U.S. Cong. H. Comm. on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Commissioned Corps, Public Health Service.Hearings ... 1959.

found: Supt. of Docs. no.: HE 20.13/2:50(CC; Commissioned Corps; Public Health Service)

found: History of the Office of the Surgeon General, via Office of the Secretary, Assistant Secretary for Health, and Surgeon General, at Dept. of Health and Human Services web site, 10/3/2000(in 1798, Congress est'd the U.S. Marine Hospital Service (predecessor of Public Health Service); in 1870, the Service was reorg. as a national hospital system with centralized administration under a medical officer, the Supervising Surgeon (to be known later as the Surgeon General); first Supervising Surgeon appointed in 1871, who est'd a cadre of medical personnel to administer Marine Hospital System; Jan. 4, 1889, Congress recognized the cadre by authorizing the Commissioned Corps)