San Francisco Department of Public Health
Named in the records1941–2025
117 records of San Francisco tie this place, 1941–2025: 14 decisions of the Board of Supervisors and 103 facts read from city reports. Open the full list, with filters for years, kind and outcome.
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- 117: 14 Board decisions, 103 facts from city reports
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- 1941–2025
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The 60 most telling of its 117 records, in date order: the ones an editor picked first, then the highest scored. The one-line summaries were written by a language model from the printed page; open the page to check the wording.
| When | What the record says | Outcome | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Bureau of Public Health Nursing, San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: very substantial generalized service in school service, maternal and child health | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1943 | San Francisco Department of Public Health communicable disease division · other: 8637 visits | measure | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1943 | San Francisco Department of Public Health epidemiologists · finding: 360 report cards sampled for the completed year 1943 | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1943 | San Francisco Department of Public Health epidemiologists · finding: Chief source of Minor Contagion reports is the health department nurse | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1944 | San Francisco Department of Public Health venereal disease control · other: 1253 infectious and potentially infectious syphilis cases reported | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1944 | San Francisco Department of Public Health venereal disease control · other: 381 sex contacts named by 1253 patients | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1944 | San Francisco Department of Public Health venereal disease control · other: 157 of 381 sex contacts found and examined (41 per cent) | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1944 | San Francisco Department of Public Health venereal disease control · other: 535 infectious or potentially infectious syphilis cases diagnosed and treated by the Health Department | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1944 | San Francisco Department of Public Health venereal disease control · other: 260 sex contacts whose names or addresses were given | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1944 | San Francisco Department of Public Health venereal disease control · other: 124 of 260 sex contacts found and examined (48 per cent) | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1944 | Bureau of Administration · cost usd: $146,725.00 | measure | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: 18 persons responsible directly to the Director | agency | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Budget preparation and budget hearings, San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: methods of budget preparation and hearings are very weak | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Bacteriologic laboratory, San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: examining an unnecessarily large number of specimens for diphtheria bacilli | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health school nursing service · other: about 180,000 individual inspections of children | action | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health school nursing service · other: about 24,000 classroom visits | action | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health school health program · recommendation: Discontinue routine medical examination of special grades other than entering children; examine selected children referred by classroom teacher | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health nursing service · other: City divided into 10 districts, six established | agency | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Bureau of Public Health Nursing, San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: all nurses engage in generalized service to some extent | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health · recommendation: Establish a Bureau of Adult Health including Industrial Hygiene as soon as practicable | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Health Conservation Branch · cost usd: $71,096.00 administration appropriations applied to Health Conservation | agency | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Health Conservation Branch · other: 48.5 per cent of service and cost chargeable | agency | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Birth and Death Registration and Statistics, San Francisco Department of Public Health · jobs: 11 persons in the three activities | agency | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Personnel Officer, San Francisco Department of Public Health · recommendation: Salary of Personnel Officer to be increased from $350 to $450 (OCR reads 3450) | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health epidemiologists · other: about 1730 man-days of service during the year | measure | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health massage parlors inspection · other: annual inspections of all massage parlors | action | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health epidemiologists staffing · finding: number of epidemiologists might be reduced from 6 to 3 and nurses employed to do the work indicated | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Department of Public Health communicable disease control · recommendation: place in the hands of nurses the placarding of homes and instruction of families of cases already diagnosed by private physicians | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Department of Public Health quarantine release · recommendation: place in the hands of nurses the release of cases from quarantine | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Department of Public Health report cards · finding: little or no indication that suspected cases of minor contagion reported by nurses have been changed to a cause other than what was suspected | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Department of Public Health quarantine release practice · finding: release from quarantine by telephone without a home visit of cases first reported by private physicians and hospitals, 40 per cent of scarlet fever cases | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Department of Public Health quarantine release practice · finding: 22 per cent of the meningitis cases released by telephone without home visit | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Department of Public Health quarantine release practice · finding: 34 per cent of the poliomyelitis cases released by telephone without home visit | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Department of Public Health isolation release · finding: no visits are made by epidemiologists for release from isolation of the 5 diseases grouped under minor contagion | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Division of Epidemiology, San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: Director has long experience in this field | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Division of Epidemiology, San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: Reasonably well staffed for the war emergency | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Division of Epidemiology, San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: Use of physicians in certain home visits is a cost weakness | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Division of Epidemiology, San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: Report cards do not clearly show source of reported case or whether epidemiologist visited | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Division of Epidemiology, San Francisco Department of Public Health · recommendation: Turn over calls that public health nurses could make as effectively to nurses | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: organization unwieldy from the standpoint of administration; too much one-man direction | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health school health program · finding: 2,235 cases of defective vision found in the year's record | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Bureau (San Francisco Department of Public Health) · recommendation: Change the name of the Bureau to Maternal and Child Health and include pre-natal and post-natal services in its general planning | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Large bureau, San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: not a single clerk is carried in the large bureau; clerical service is borrowed from the nursing bureau | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Director of the Bureau, San Francisco Department of Public Health · recommendation: salary range $400 to $500 | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Assistant Director of the Bureau, San Francisco Department of Public Health · recommendation: salary range $280 to $350 | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health dental program · finding: Teeth destruction disclosed in recent selective service examinations | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health · finding: has no program of industrial hygiene or adult health in its broad aspects | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health · recommendation: reorganize the Department of Public Health in accordance with proposed organizational chart | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Housing-Industrial inspectors, San Francisco Department of Public Health · other: 7459 inspections of places with unknown unit count, approximately 49.3 per cent of total inspections | finding | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | San Francisco Department of Public Health · other: Section of Environmental Sanitation to be under a full-time public health engineer (new position) | agency | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Health Conservation Branch, San Francisco Department of Public Health · other: three sections: Administration or General Services, Preventive Medical Services, Environmental Sanitation | agency | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Bureau of Adult Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health · recommendation: Establish a Bureau of Adult Health including Industrial Hygiene if San Francisco remains an important industrial center | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Section of Environmental Sanitation, San Francisco Department of Public Health · recommendation: Combine Market-Food and Housing Industrial Inspectors into a single classification of Public Health Inspectors | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Department of Public Health organization · recommendation: Assistant Director in charge of Medical Care Branch supervises San Francisco Hospital, Laguna Honda Home, Hassler Health Home, Emergency Hospital Service and City Physicians' Office | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 1945 | Bureau of Disease Control · recommendation: consist of Divisions of Epidemiology, Venereal Diseases, and | recommendation | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
| 2015-02-03 | Resolution retroactively authorizing San Francisco Department of Public Health to accept a $1,000,000 (≈ $1.4 million in 2026 dollars) federal trauma care grant was sent to committee. | referred | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 2022-06-07 | Federal grant for climate health work, $300K (≈ $345,396 in 2026 dollars) total, accepted | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 2023-12-05 | City health department accepts $341,000 (≈ $377,078 in 2026 dollars) grant for homelessness consulting work | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 2025-07-15 | $2.49M (≈ $2.6 million in 2026 dollars) state grant to expand care for homeless patients accepted | passed | Board decision scanned page ↗ |
| 1944 | Birth and Death Registration and Statistics, San Francisco Department of Public Health · cost usd: Appropriations totalled $29,100.00 for fiscal year 1944-1945 (3.7 cents per capita) | agency | City report: A Report based on a study of the San Francisco Department of Public Health scanned page ↗ |
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