Hospitals

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A variety of completed forms related to Confederate hospitals and medical service. Includes information from Georgia locations including Andersonville, Atlanta, Covington, Griffin, Newnan, and Vineville.

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Official correspondence from the Treasury Department addressed to Dr. Fessenden. Content is entirely administrative regarding personnel, hospital accounts, maintenance, and reports.

Abstract Correspondence, reports, manuscripts, photographs, and slides relating primarily to Lembcke's projects with Eleanor Poland, Ph.D., from whom the material was acquired. They reflect Lembcke's interest in and research on medical auditing, epidemiology, preventive medicine, and the regional organizations of hospitals in the United States and Sweden. Most extensive are the records relating to the research conducted by Lembcke and Poland for Community Studies, Inc., on Kansas hospitals and health...

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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. From 1909 to its closing in 1949, Sydenham Hospital was maintained by the Baltimore City Health Department for the isolation and treatment of communicable diseases such as polio, diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, and chicken pox.

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18 leaves, mimeographed, originally read at meeting of the A.O.W. Surgical Society.