Alabama's First Railroad Commission, 1881-1885.

Inner Workings: 1885, the first rabies vaccination in humans.

The first human vaccination with a rabies virus attenuated by exposure to dry air started on July 6, 1885, and was reported in the session of the French Academy of Sciences on October 26, 1885 (1). In his report, Louis Pasteur describes how experiments started in 1882 led him to a rapid prophylactic method that had been successful many times in dogs. Pasteur was confident that it could be gener...

First Year of Sickness Insurance for Railroad Workers

T HROUGH an amendment to the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, approved by President Truman on July 31,1946, the Railroad Retirement Board was charged with the responsibility of establishing and administering a sickness insurance program for railroad employees.’ Thus, sickness benefits now form an integral part of the railroad retirement and unemployment insurance systems. The programs for p...

Productivity Commission Inquiry on First Home Ownership

Productivity Commission Inquiry on First Home Ownership

1. Background In Australia, local government is established under State/Territory legislation and its structures, powers and functions are determined by that legislation. In all jurisdictions in the last 10-15 years, the relevant legislation creating and regulating local government has been reviewed and significantly amended or replaced with new legislation that gives local councils greater gen...

First session of UN's permanent Social Commission.

*Bureau of Public Assistance, Technical Training Service. Miss Lally, formerly welfare consultant with UNRRA in England, France, and Germany, was technical adviser to the United States representative at the Social Commission meetings. Vital decisions on pressing emergent problems and the necessity for laying the foundation for long-range planning for international organization in the social fie...