Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Bureau of Rodent Control
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1900-1970
History
The Bureau of Rodent Control was officially established by the Territorial Legislature in the 1950s. From 1900 to the 1950s, most of the funding to prevent and/or suppress vector borne diseases and vector nuisance by maintaining vector (principally rodents and mosquitoes) populations below disease-transmitting or nuisance-causing levels was financed by public-spirited private efforts; principally through fund-raising by the respective island chambers of commerce. These problems were assumed as territorial functions by the Board of Health under two separate bureaus in the 1950s, Rodent Control and Mosquito Control. In 1970, the two separate bureaus were merged into a single state Vector Control Branch. This merge facilitated program and economic efficiency in the protection and prevention of vector borne diseases.