United States. Public Health Service

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Manuscript copy, and related materials, of Furman's history of the Public Health Service, 1798-1948, ending with the administration of Dr. Thomas Parran.

Abstract Reports, documents, memoranda, drafts, correspondence, and printed matter pertaining to the U. S. Public Health Service. Subjects include a history of the U.S.P.H.S. during World War II; policies and activities in Civilian Health Districts 1-10; medical and social aspects of tuberculosis, venereal disease, malaria, sanitation, and industrial health; the Emergency Medical Service; care of sick and wounded; civil defense; health problems relating to the use of gas; public health...

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Collection of interviews conducted for source material for Rosen's projected history of United States public health in the postwar years; also included is some draft background materials.

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Correspondence, reprints and clippings primarily documenting Shiras' collaboration with the Committee of One Hundred to create a national health department.

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Assistant executive director of the Public Health Service's Bureau of Medical Services, Murtaugh's files document meetings, research of public health issues, legislative activities, and program initiatives.

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An incomplete set of the collected reprints of Joseph W. Mountin relating to his work with the Public Health Service on regional public health.

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Dr. Lawrence Kolb was a pioneer in the medical approach to narcotics addiction treatment and in public health research and treatment of mental illness. He was one of the first to advocate treating drug addicts as patients, not criminals. The collection deals chiefly with the subjects of drug addiction, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and mental health.

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Two copies of the report, with introductory statement, exhibits, and sections.

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Correspondence, photographs, captions, and short essays relating to the history of the U.S. Public Health Service and exhibits that were prepared on aspects of the same topic.

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Correspondence and related papers, pertaining chiefly to the publication of his United States Public Health Service, 1790-1950 (Washington, D.C, 1951).