The National Board of Health (NBH) was a short lived institution that operated from 1879 to 1883 in the United States.
[7] As the subsequent years were relatively pandemic-free, Republican members of Congress, as well as conservative lawmakers, chose not to reauthorize the NBH in 1883.
[7] The ambition of these two Bills, and by extension the NBH, were to stop the "introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States".
[8] In addition, an officer from the Justice Department was to be appointed to deal with state and national laws regarding quarantine.
This came at a time following the Civil War when states' rights, particularly ones revolving around economy and commerce, were a sensitive topic.