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Emery A. Johnson (1929-2005), American physician, administrator, and health advocate, devoted his career to improving the health needs of the country's Native American and Alaska Native populations. He was the fourth director of the Indian Health Service (I.H.S.), an Assistant Surgeon General of the United States, and a life-long supporter of allowing American Indians to take control of their own health care management.

Correspondence and clippings relating to the National Hotel illness along with some records of Dr. Stone's practice.

Contains administrative files primarily relating to PHS nursing, as well as photographs illustrating PHS hospitals and clinics, American outreach to promote hygiene, health and nursing education in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, and health care facilities in federal prisons and the U.S. Coast Guard.