PR Medicine Timeline
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Updated: 9 Apr 2021
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Created byLauren Acosta
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Hurricane San CiriacoSmallpox Vaccination made compulsory by governorPuerto Rico Provincial Institute of Vaccination establishedSmallpox outbreakUS landsAmerican mil gov Major General Guy V Henry orders smallpox vaccination of entire population of the islandUS abolish Puerto Rico Provincial Institution of VaccinationSuperior Board of Health takes over smallpox vaccinationNonexistent vaccination campaignUnionist Party decisive victory over republicansCommission for the Study and Treatment of Anemia in Puerto Rico
createdFederal Party changes name to Union partyDr. Henry King Carroll Commissioncoffee prices collapsepatron client practices solidifiedPartido Liberal ReformistaIncondicionalesThe Democratic Doctrine publishedliberal autonomists won election big timeAutonomic CharterReformists-Orthodoxos party foundedLiberal reformist change name to liberal autonomistliberal autonomists change name to federal partyOrthodox party becomes Republican partyForaker Act1st civil governor sworn in (Charles H. Allen)1st elections under foraker act; a bunch of republicans in HODFederals disavow abstention policy and start cooperating with Allen; become American Federal PartyFLT obrero socialista partySocialista Party2000 CensusSpanish Conquest of PR beginAbolition ActBando contra la raza africanaBando de JornalerosGrito de LaresBanda de VagosLa Charca publishedThe Puerto Rican Peasant publishedJones ActIndependence PartyFirst Commission For the Suppression of Anemia in Porto RicoPermanent Anemia CommissionAMA applauds american sanitarians in the tropicsAnemia Dispensary serviceADS expanded to Tropical and Transmissable Disease ServiceTTDS brought under Sanitation ServiceInstitute of Tropical MedicineInstitute of tropical medicine gets administrative independence as a research body that reports to US governmentSanitatioin Service and IOTM subordinated under Colombia UniversityPR Medical school independentcentralizing of public health under president of sbohSuperior Board of Health (SBOH) start being in charge of licensingMedical Association of Puerto RicoOffice of Health, Charities, and CorrectionsOlmstead AmmendmentSuperior Board of Health developedashford "discovers" hookworm as cause of peasent production and health problemssanitaiton officers took over anemia dispensariessanitation officers no longer appointed by municipal governor,Real Subdelegacion de Medicinamore laws eroding phys statusAMPR incorporate into AMAAcademia de Medicina FoundedChristopher Colombus landsslaves introducedsanitary commissions organizedoffice of medicine and surgery regulate and euprvise practice of medicine on island
- establish requirements fo licensing practicantesPublic Health Service createdcommissioner of health invite international health board of rockefeller foundation to study hookwormsanitiona offices in municipalities organized as public health units(IOTM becomes School of Tropical Medicine of the Universiyty of puerto Ricodeparmtne of preventative medicine and public health organizedPuerto Rican Emergency Relief Administration (PRERA)DOH ask us public health to study islands health and medical problemsluis munoz marin forms Popular Democratic Partypublic health units grouped into 5 districtslocal welfare units establishedHill-Burton ActJones act amended so governor elected by popular votemunoz marin elected governorconstitutional conventionconstitution proclaimed, pr as a commonwelath becomes a thingbayamon project conceivedsurvey for bayamon projectrockefeler gives money for bayamon- to development of techniwues and methods of regionalization of the medical and public health facilities of the bayamon regiondecentralizzed reorganization by health secretaryCentro MedicoAMPR members meet with DOH, rockefeller foundationampr pass resolution condeming regionalizationNPP comes to power3 regionsPDP backNPP back6 regionsUS passes medicaid and medicarefree choice ammendment medicaidstudy on organizing, financing, distributing medical services5 regionsMaster Sample Surveybayamon hospital becomes university district hospitalley 72 approved (Reforma)Rosello 1 elected (PNP)constitution approvedPeriods
Spanish American WarMilitary AdministrationSmallpox CampaignsLast cases of smallpox were imported from hispaniolalast smallpox vaccination campaignSugar BoomDisquisiciones sociologicasprera replaced by puerto rico reconstruction administrationdoh gets funds from works progress administrationPDP in Power
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