Preface / Richard A. Goodman, Karen L. Foster, Michael B. Gregg -- Forewird / George D. Lundberg -- -- History of CDC -- History of CDC (June 28, 1996) / Elizabeth Etheridge, Stephen B. Thacker -- Notifiable Disease Surveillance and Notifiable Disease Statistics -- United States, June 1946 and June 1996 (June 28, 1996) / Systems Operations and Information Branch, Division of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC -- -- Disease and Injury Surveillance -- Introduction to Table V, Premature Deaths, Monthly Mortality, and -- Monthly Physician Contacts -- United States (March 12, 1982) [1997 Editorial note by Robert A. Hahn] -- Public Health Focus: Effectiveness of Disease and Injury Prevention (April 24, 1992) [1997 Editorial note by Steven M. Teutsch] -- Addition of Prevalence of Cigarette Smoking as a Nationally NotifiableCondition -- June 1996 (June 28, 1996) / Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists; Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; Division of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC -- -- Infectious Diseases -- Smallpox -- Stockholm, Sweden, 1963 (May-July 1963) [1996 Editorial note by Donald R. Hopkins, J. Donald Milla] -- Smallpox Surveillance -- Worldwide (January 6, 1978, and May 5, 1978) [1997 Editorial note by William H. Foege, Walter R. Dowdle] -- Nosocomial Bacteremias Associated with Intravenous Fluid Therapy -- USA (March 6, 1971) [1997 Editorial note by Frank S. Rhame, Dennis G. Maki, John V. Bennett, William R. Jarvis] -- Respiratory Infection -- Pennsylvania and Follow-Up on RespiratoryIllness -- Philadelphia (August 6, 1976, and January 18, 1977) [1997 Editorial note by David J. Sencer, Joseph E. McDade] -- Poliomyelitis -- United States, Canada and Follow-Up on Poliomyelitis -- United States, Canada, Netherlands (May 25, 1979, and July 27, 1979) [1997 Editorial note by Alan R.Hinman] -- Toxic-Shock Syndrome -- United States (May 23, 1980) [1997 Editorial note by Arthur L. Reingold, Gene W. Matthews, Claire V. Broome] -- Reye Syndrome -- Ohio, Michigan (November 7, 1980) [1997 Editorial note by Eugene S. Hurwitz, Lawrence B. Schonberger] -- Pneumocystis Pneumonia -- Los Angeles (June 5, 1981) [1996 Editorial note by James W. Curran] -- Isolation of E. coli O157:H7 from Sporadic Cases of Hemorrhagic Colitis -- United States (November 5, 1982) [1997 Editorial note by Stephen M. Ostroff] -- -- Noninfectious Conditions -- Pentachlorophenol Poisoning in Newborn Infants -- St. Louis, Missouri, April-August 1967 (October 7, 1967) [1996 Editorial note by Michael A. McGeehin] -- Human Lead Absorption -- Texas (December 8, 1973) [1997 Editorial note by Thomas Matte, Henry Falk] -- Angiosarcoma of the Liver Among Polyvinyl Chloride Workers -- -- Kentucky (February 9, 1974) [1997 Editorial note by Philip J. Landrigan] -- IUD Safety: Report of a Nationwide Physician Survey (June 29, 1974) [1997 Editorial note by Allan Rosenfield, Herbert B. Peterson, Carl W. Tyler, Jr.] -- Acute Childhood Leukemia -- Columbus, Ohio and Burkitt's Lymphoma -- Winchester, Virginia (March 19, 1976, and June 11, 1976) [1997 Editorial note by Clark W. Heath, Jr., Glynn G. Caldwell] -- Infant Metabolic Alkalosis and Soy-Based Formula -- United States (August 3, 1979) / [1997 Editorial note by Shane Roy III, Frank Greenberg, Gillian L. Robert-Baldo, Nicholas Duy; John C. Wallingford; Heinz W. Berendes, J. David Erickson, Jose Cordero] -- Temporal Trends in the Incidence of Birth Defects -- United States (August 31, 1979) [1997 Editorial note by Godfrey P. Oakley] -- Smoking-Attributable Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost -- United States, 1984 (October 30, 1987) [1997 Editorial note by Ann M. Malarcher, Jeffrey H. Chrismon; Gary A. Giovino, Michael .P Eriksen] -- -- Selected Bibliography

"This volume is a compendium of articles from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR ) that were prepared on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of CDC, marked on July 1, 1996. The compendium comprises articles from the MMWR weekly selected primarily on the basis of their historical merit and interest to public health practice. For each of the 20 selections, we invited past and/or current CDC experts (and, in some cases, experts from outside CDC) to write a new editorial note about some aspect of each article and its relation to the evolution of public health practice." - p. v.

Enhanced version of the CDC 50th anniversary issue of MMWR: v. 45, no. 25, June 28, 1996.

Includes bibliography (p. 139).

Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection