The Nation - News from Sept. 8, 1988
The national Centers for Disease Control plans more rigorous sanitary inspections of cruise ships and new health score cards that will help the public judge a ship’s history, a CDC official said. Dr. Vernon N. Houk, director of the CDC’s Center for Environmental Health and Injury Control, said the center plans to hire additional inspectors and set up an improved inspection routine of the cruise ships. Houk said the proposed new reporting procedures would replace pass-fail designations with a numeral rating and include a median score of all inspections from the previous five years.
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