Health aide enters a home in a migrant workers’ camp near Nassawadox, Virginia, photograph by Janet Ochs for Public Health Service World, 1966
Courtesy U.S. National Library of Medicine
A public health nurse visits migrants in their temporary homes in a camp for agricultural workers on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. After decades of neglect of migrant workers’ health conditions, Congress passed the Migrant Health Act in 1962. It provides federal grants for delivery of basic preventive care to migrant workers, such as visits from a nurse.
