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HEALTH
IN MISSOURI STATE PUBLICATIONS
1883-1946

Publications Chronology

Missouri State Board of Health, established March 29th, 1883.

1884-1885

  • Proceedings of the Missouri State Board of Health at its semiannual meeting, July 1884
  • Extracts from the Report of the Missouri State Board of Health: made to the governor, January 1st, 1885.

1888-1894

1891-1894

  • 1891 Board of Health Biennial Message of the Governor,  p.28
  • 1892 Bulletin from the Missouri State Board of Health (library item)

1901-1902

  • Annual Reports of the Missouri State Board of Health
  • "How to restrict and control smallpox, scarlatina, diptheria," 1902. (library item)

1904-1910

  • Annual Reports of the Missouri State Board of Health (see also library items)
  • Bulletins of the Missouri State Board of Health, presently uncatalogued but available upon request
  • Biennial Report of the Missouri State Board of Health to the Governor and the 43rd General Assembly (1905)

1911-1920

1921-1924

1925-1933

1934-1945

1946

Missouri State Board of Health

About the Board

The Missouri State Board of Health was established March 29, 1883. It consisted of seven members, appointed by the governor for a term of four years.

Duties included:

  • Grant state licenses to practice medicine
  • Study the cause and prevention of disease
  • Enforce rules and regulations to prevent the spread of infectious diseases
  • Operate the Bureau of Vital Statistics
  • Appoint a state health commissioner
  • Remove from office any county health officer who neglects or fails to perform his duties

For a full description of the Board, see the Missouri Blue Book (Full-Text available online)

In 1945, the Sixty-third General Assembly voted to establish a new department that combinded all health and welfare activiites. The Department of Public Heatlh and Welfare became effective July 1, 1946.

Notes regarding publications

  • Annual Report of the State Board of Missouri is continued by Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Bureau of Vital Statistics of Missouri.
  • Report of the Missouri State Board of Health is continued by Annual report of the Division of Health of the Department of Public Health and Welfare of Missouri.
  • Annual report of birth, death, stillbirth, infant mortality and maternal death statistics 1910-1920 included in Annual Report
    1921-22 issued seperately by the Bureau of Vital Statistics

Related Agencies, Bureaus, and Institutions

Related Agencies, Bureaus, and Institutions:

1907-1912

  • Biennial Report of the Missouri State Sanatorium for Incipient Tuberculosis at Mt. Vernon
  • Index of Deaths from the Missouri Bureau of Vital Statistics (1910-1912)

1913-1933

1934-1975

  • Annual Reports of the Missouri Board of Pharmacy
  • Missouri Industrial Health Bulletin (1943-1949)
    (Numbers 13-17 issued by Department of Health and welfare ; Division of Health ; Bureau of public health engineering. Issued Dec. 1943-July 1945 by Missouri State Board of Health; Oct. 1945-July 1946 by State Board of Health, Division of Public Health Engineering and Industrial Hygiene; Sept. 1946-June 1949 by Missouri Dept. of Public Health and Welfare, Division of Health, Section of Environmental Sanitation; Sept. 1949- by Missouri Dept. of Public Health and Welfare, Division of Health, Bureau of Public Health Engineering)

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