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MSBRUB23 - Brubaker Family papers
- The bulk of the Brubaker Family papers consist of letters written by Waldon Brubaker to his wife Julia, mostly during his WWI service between 1918-1919. Overall, the letters describe Waldon's everyday life as well as his growing love for Julia. Starting from the beginning of his military service on August 26, 1918 through his discharge on February 16, 1919, his letters to Julia document his life in the military, including his experiences at Camp Funston where the first confirmed case of influenza was identified, leading to the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic. Letters from other family members are also included, generally from Waldon and Julia's parents and siblings.
MSHEAL22 -
Chicago health policy, reports and publications collection
- The Chicago health policy, reports and publications collection contains health policy documentation, including approved policies, reports, research, correspondence, and meeting minutes. The materials are generally from agencies focused on the City of Chicago and the surrounding area, with some material focused on national health care topics and events, notably the 1993 Clinton Health Care Plan.
MSCCMTNO -
City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium records
- The Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanatorium opened in 1915 on 160 acres. The sanatorium was located between Bryn Mawr, Pulaski, Peterson and Central Park avenues, and was a complex of 32 buildings and 650 beds. As TB patients lived separately from healthy society for months if not years, the sanatorium had many of the comforts of regular life, including a theater, school, church, and small cottages for patients transitioning out of care. The collection contains one bound book of Bulletins published by the sanatorium.
MSCOLE20 -
Connie Coleman papers
- The materials in this collection were collected by Constance Coleman, who was a board member of the Suburban Cook-DuPage Health Systems Agency, the Suburban Health Planning Association, and was a founding member of the Oak Park Consulting Group. The Board of the Suburban Cook-DuPage Health Systems Agency was founded in 1976 under the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, which was enacted in 1974 to address inequality in health services, control ballooning health costs, and to give health care providers and communities better access to impact and shape health policy, among other issues.
MSDeKrNO -
Paul De Kruif papers
- Paul de Kruif (2 Mar. 1890-28 Feb. 1971) was a bacteriologist in his early career, but is better known as an author of medical histories and biographies. He served as secretary to the President's Infantile Paralysis Research Commission and subsequently to the general scientific advisory committee of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (later to become the March of Dimes). The majority of the letters, notes, and telegrams in this collection are from de Kruif to D. Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and confidante of FDR, regarding funding for, research on, and other aspects of the development of a polio vaccine in association with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis between 1937 and 1942. Selection processes for various committees, grants, and research approaches are also discussed.
MSSLHC20 - South Lawndale Health Center records
- The South Lawndale Health Center officially opened in August 1975 as part of the Outreach Program of the Health and Hospitals Governing Commission of Cook County. The medical staff were part of Cook County Hospital's Family Practice Program. The Community Board, which consisted of 12 representatives, owned the building and rented the space to Cook County Hospital in order to keep the community involved. The Board was envisioned as a permanent part of the clinic and participate in policy and decision making for the health center. The collection contains meeting minutes, correspondence, outreach notifications to the community, sociological studies of sections of the community, statistical counts of health services delivered to the community by the South Lawndale Health Center's Community Board.