Series 1: Committee For The Nation's Health Records, 1946-1956

Series 1 contains the CNH's administrative records, covering the organization's political and financial activity from 1946 until its demise early in 1956. Most of the material was stored in yearly binders, but some information was also kept loose in folders. Transitions between binders have been inferred from the changes in binder tab position (from top to side, and vice versa), labelling styles, and dates of the materials contained in each section. In this guide to the microfilmed papers of the CNH, the titles given on file folder and binder separator labels have been retained with only minor changes or additions. Unfortunately the titles are not always an accurate reflection of date or content; hence the researcher should use these titles as more of an indication of his or her position in the microfilmed records rather than as exact guides to the contents of each file or binder division.

Included in the records are memos, copies of minutes, and the financial reports sent to Executive Committee members; reprinted articles, news clippings, and CNH policy statements and strategy plans used in the organization's campaign for national health insurance; and materials produced by the CNH's opposition (especially the American Medical Association). Although these papers give a full portrait of the CNH's public relations campaign to gain the support of individuals, political and media organizations, and union locals and media, the CNH files contain little actual correspondence. They do, however, contain the drafts and final versions of fundraising appeals, speeches, press releases, articles, and pamphlets on national health insurance, as well as notes and analyses by Davis, CNH Chairman Dr. Channing Frothingham, and Education Director Frederick E. Robin.

The material in series 1 should be supplemented with the four folders of Executive Committee memos and minutes for 1948 and 1949 filmed in 1972 and found on reel twelve.