"Zinc sulfate prophylaxis in poliomyelitis", 1937

The patient records of Sydenham Hospital offer an invaluable insight into the nature and treatment of communicable diseases in the pre-antibiotic era. The bulk of the collection consists of patient medical case histories. Records are complete for the years 1909 to 1924, but because of the size of the collection, only a sample of every tenth record for the years 1924 to 1949 were retained; the hospital registers for the entire period have been preserved, however.

The collection also contains reports from other doctors and hospitals on cases of typhoid (1920-45), poliomyelitis (1937-49), meningitis (1938-47), and diphtheria, rabies, spotted fever, smallpox, measles, and other communicable diseases. There are two boxes of correspondence and reports relating to hospital administration, three scrapbooks of clippings from the Baltimore papers on public health (1931-1934), and a box of material on Negro Health Week Activities (1941).

Boxes 85-141 consist of patient medical histories for April 1909-February 1924. Case histories for January 1924-December 1949, are in containers 1-55. Case reports on typhoid (1920-45), poliomyelitis (1937-49), meningitis (1938-47), and diphtheria,rabies, spotted fever, smallpox, measles and other communicable diseases are in containers 56-80. Correspondence and reports relating to hospital administration, in boxes 80-82. Includes patient registers for 1911-49 (8 boxes), scrapboooks with public health clippings, 1931-34 (3 boxes), and a Negro Health Week activities scrapbook, 1941.