"Yellow fever fear inspired a wave of similar organized public health activity elsewhere in the United States. In 1798 Congress ordered the creation of the Untied States Marine Health Service, conceived of as an agency that would monitor sailors and protect American ports from incoming disease. Two years later the nation's capitol was built upon a large swamp located between the strategic states of Maryland and Virginia. Immediately overrun by yellow fever, smallpox, viral encephalitis, and a host of other diseases, Washington, D.C., constituted a public health disaster from the moment of its inception. In 1802 the District of Columbia enacted a series of public health ordinances modeled after those in New York."
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Okay, this is how I know I've been studying Human Rights too much. The part I underlined made me laugh SO hard. Why??? That's not funny! Nevertheless... interesting to know such details about your country's inception, yeah?
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