Summary Information
Wisconsin. Public Health Nursing Section: Migrant Nursing Project
1951-1978
- Wisconsin. Public Health Nursing Section
Series 2208
0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records, mainly 1960s and 1970s, of public health nurses working among migrant workers in central Wisconsin. Included are monthly and seasonal progress reports, employment and demographic data on migrants, program policy statements, instructional materials (mostly in Spanish); correspondence between field nurses and public health supervisors; reports on La Clinica de los Campesinos, a non-profit health care clinic for migrant workers located in Wild Rose, Wisconsin; records related to the Migrant Health Referral Project, 1964-1975.
English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser02208 ↑ Bookmark this ↑
Biography/History
Chapter 640, Laws of 1951, authorized the Public Health Nursing Section of the State Board of Health to begin devoting resources to migrant workers and their families. Public health nurses began work in 1952, with one nurse assigned to Door County and another to the bordering areas of Portage, Waupaca, Green Lake and Adams counties and all of Marquette county. Services included prenatal care, immunizations, a tuberculosis x-ray program, and general health care instruction. Health care for migrant laborers and their dependents, however, remained largely inadequate.
Passage of the Migrant Health Act (P.L. 87-692), and as amended in 1968 (Section 319 of Title IV of P.L. 94-63), authorized the U.S. Public Health Service to make grants to assist communities in extending local health services to migrants. The Bureau of Community Health and Prevention and its various components, including the Public Health Nursing Section, Subsequently became much more involved in rectifying the health problems of seasonal laborers, assisting several local governments and non-profit organizations with migrant health projects.
Scope and Content Note
The series documents the activities of public health nurses working among migrant laborers, mostly of Texas-Mexican descent. The series is arranged chronologically, except for a single folder labeled Migrant Referral Project. Materials in the chronological files include nurses seasonal reports and evaluations; data on population, diseases and other common health problems of seasonal workers; and correspondence between nurses and the section supervisor. Documentation for the period 1951-1961 is fragmented. Records related to two health projects established in the early 1970s are more complete; La Clinica de los Campesions Inc., a non-profit corporation that established a year-round health clinic in Wild Rose; and the Migrant Health Referral Project, an interstate referral system created to provide continuity in health services and family planning to Wisconsin-Texas migrants and their families during their migration and return home.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Processed by Andrew Hamilton; supervising archivist, Matt Blessing, June, 1991.
Contents List
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Box
1
Folder
1
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1951 - 1961
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Box
1
Folder
2
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1962
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Box
1
Folder
3
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1963
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Box
1
Folder
4
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1964
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Box
1
Folder
5
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1968 - 1969
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Box
1
Folder
6
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1970
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Box
1
Folder
7
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1971
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Box
1
Folder
8
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1972
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Box
1
Folder
9
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1973
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Box
1
Folder
10
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1974
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Box
2
Folder
1
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1975
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Box
2
Folder
2
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1976
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Box
2
Folder
3-4
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1977
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Box
2
Folder
5-6
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1978
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Box
2
Folder
7
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Migrant Referral Project, 1964 - 1975
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