THE PREVENTION OF MENTAL RETARDATION THROUGH CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES—edited by Heinz F. Eichenwald, M.D. Public Health Service Publication No. 1692, 1968, 396 pages. Single copies available free from the Public Information Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20014

1968 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 236-236
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Mental Retardation ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Public Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
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NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-570
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New York ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Public Health Service ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
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Expectant Mothers

Dr. Samuel M. Wishik, former assistant director of the Division of Health Services of the Children's Bureau in Washington, has been named head of the New York City Health Department's recently reorganized Bureau for Mothers and Young Children, Dr. Harry S. Mustard, Health Commissioner, has announced. In making the appointment, Dr. Mustard declared that his department's expanded program of services for the protection of premature babies and expectant mothers was "now well under way." The new Bureau Director is a graduate of Columbia University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He did child health work in the Health Department from 1939 to 1942, when he was appointed Senior Assistant Surgeon of the Public Health Service. He was assigned to Hawaii where he served both with the Public Health Service and the Hawaiian Board of Health in charge of maternal and child health.

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