Department of Health. Division of Occupational Health

Some history of the Division of Occupational Health was provided in the September 1953 issue of the Occupational Health Bulletin. It went as follows: "The Division of Industrial Hygiene was formed in 1941, and was very active through the war years. After the end of the war, because of lack of adequate budget and personnel, the activities were somewhat curtailed. In 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service loaned an industrial hygiene engineer to the State to re-establish the activities of the Division. In 1950, the name was changed to Division of Occupational Health and is now staffed with a full-time state employed industrial hygiene engineer, two industrial hygiene chemists, and a part-time industrial nursing consultant who devote their time to occupational health." The division appears to have been broken up in 1959 with industrial hygiene becoming a section under the Bureau of Sanitation, the laboratory becoming a bureau, and nursing being under the newly created Bureau of Medical Services.