Historical background files on municipal hospitals for 1930 to 1972

Accession ACC-1982-028. Unprocessed - RG 059. Health and Hospitals Corporation

Description

Accession consists of correspondence, memos, minutes, reports, press releases, architect's blueprints, legislative documents, a musical score, photographs, booklets, brochures, articles, invitations and clippings illustrating the development of individual units of the municipal hospital system in the period between the creation of the Department of Hospitals on February 1, 1929 and the creation of the Health and Hospitals Corporation in 1969-1970. Much of this accession was created by the Department of Hospitals but turned over to the Haven Emerson Public Health Library in about 1971 where it was interfiled with other materials already held by the library. The correspondence included is generally of the commissioner, assistant commissioner and hospital director-level and relates to the specific subjects or issues given in the folder headings, e.g. construction, controversies (such as the charges of neglect stemming from the deterioration of the Bellevue plant in 1957), affiliations with teaching and other institutions and special units like nursing schools and children's services. An original musical score entitled "City Home Waltz", for a now defunct institution is included. There are also two general files, one on "Municipal Hospitals" and the other on Welfare Island [institution] as well as three files of printed materials on voluntary and proprietary hospitals of New York City dating from the early 1920s to 1982. Arranged alphabetically.

Extent

3.5 cubic feet

Dates

1930-1972

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