Chief Medical Examiners Charles Norris and Thomas A. Gonzales correspondence circa 1918 to 1954
Description
Charles Norris was the first Chief Medical Examiner in New York City, serving from 1918 to 1935. He was succeeded by Thomas A. Gonzales, who served from 1935 to 1954. The accession consists of correspondence. The correspondence is with other coroners/medical examiners, city officials, hospitals, and medical schools. Milton Helpern, who became Chief Medical Examiner after Gonzales, accessed these records and incorporated them, as a body, for reference, into his own active subject files. Those subject files comprise Accession 2007-017. The Norris and Gonzales records were separated from that accession. The correspondence relates to subject files of Norris and Gonzales acquired separately, and earlier than the present records, by the Municipal Archives and has been processed. Arranged alphabetically.
Extent
1.25 cubic feet
Dates
circa 1918-1954
Record Groups
Creator
- New York (N.Y.). Office of Chief Medical Examiner (Organization)
- Norris, Charles, 1867-1935 (Person)
- Gonzales, Thomas A. (Thomas Arthur), 1878-1956 (Person)
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