The New York State Department of Health is the department of the New York state government responsible for public health. Its regulations are compiled in title 10 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations.
A nurse pinning ceremony at Nazareth College. Nurses represent a majority of rural public health workers.
The 1858 Staten Island Quarantine War was a series of attacks on the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island
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David Alexander Paterson is an American politician and attorney who served as the 55th governor of New York, succeeding Eliot Spitzer, who resigned, and serving out nearly three years of Spitzer's term from March 2008 to December 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first legally blind person to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state, and the first African-American governor of New York.
Paterson speaks during the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Paterson visiting Kabul in December 2008.