Wisconsin. Division of Health: History of Public Health Nursing in Wisconsin, 1920-1979


Summary Information
Title: Wisconsin. Division of Health: History of Public Health Nursing in Wisconsin
Inclusive Dates: 1920-1979

Creator:
  • Wisconsin. Division of Health
Call Number: 1985/009

Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (1 record center carton, 1 archives box, and 1 flat box) and 123 photographs

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Materials compiled in 1979 to document the history of Public Health Nursing in Wisconsin from 1920 to 1979. Records include newspaper clippings, photographs, reports, articles, and correspondence. Also included are two photograph scrapbooks. One scrapbook documents the Public Health Nursing involvement with Native American clinics in the 1930s, while the other is a memorial scrapbook on the life and work of public health nurse Theta C. Mead.

Language: English

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Acquisition Information

Accession Number: 1985/009


Contents List
1985/009
Box   1
Folder   1
Florence Nightingale pledge, undated
Box   1
Folder   2
History of Public Health Nursing, 1921-1957
Box   1
Folder   3
Correspondence with members of legislature, 1947
Miscellaneous notes, articles, and related material regarding the history of public health nursing in Wisconsin
Box   1
Folder   4
1932-1948
Box   1
Folder   5
1931-1948, 1967
Box   1
Folder   6
Section on Local Health Administration, biennial report, December 1954
Box   1
Folder   7
State Board of Health reports and bulletins, 1930-1936, 1948
Box   1
Folder   8
Public Health Nurses, nursing supplies returned by nurses, 1942-1949
Box   1
Folder   9
Wisconsin Visiting Nursing Association information and histories, 1930-1932
Box   1
Folder   10
Correspondence regarding nurse Cecilia Evans, 1932-1934
Box   1
Folder   11
Holiday card, Bureau of Public Health Nursing, undated
Box   1
Folder   12
Studies in Public Health Nursing, 1939
Box   1
Folder   13
Census of Public Health Nurses, 1951-1960
Box   1
Folder   14
Activity report data, 1939-1954
Public Health Nursing (and Bureau of), history of
Box   1
Folder   15
1929-1967
Box   1
Folder   16
1921-1947
Box   1
Folder   17
A Survey of County Public Health Nursing in Wisconsin, Ruth Estella Church, 1935
Box   1
Folder   18
Miscellaneous Public Health Nursing publications, 1961-1963
Box   1
Folder   19
Organization and Functions of the Division of Health, Department of Health and Social Services, 1969
Box   1
Folder   20
The Crusade of Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association, volume 14, number 9, November 1923
Box   1
Folder   21
Public Health Nursing by county, circa 1927-1935
Box   1
Folder   22
Correspondence, policy book, 1937-1948
Box   1
Folder   23
Miscellaneous correspondence and reports regarding Public Health Nurses, 1953-1971
Box   1
Folder   24
Information about Wisconsin Public Health Nursing services, circa 1937
Box   1
Folder   25
Wisconsin legislative highlights on health, circa 1969
Box   1
Folder   26
City nurse compilations, 1932-1968
Box   1
Folder   27
County nurse compilations, 1931-1949
Box   1
Folder   28
Private agency compilations, 1928-1968
Box   1
Folder   29
Public Health Nursing Services, opening of, 1926, 1933
Box   1
Folder   30
Miscellaneous, history, 1960-1963
Box   1
Folder   31
History, nurses personnel questionnaires, 1944, 1947
Box   1
Folder   32
Correspondence and bulletins, home and nursing services planning and budgeting, 1966
Box   1
Folder   33
Home Health Agencies information, 1965-1968
Box   1
Folder   34
Miscellaneous correspondence, bulletins, and Public Health Nursing statistics, 1934-1963
Box   1
Folder   35
Manual for Public Health Nurses, Wisconsin State Board of Health, 1949
Box   1
Folder   36
A Manual for volunteers, Wisconsin State Organization for Public Health Nursing, circa 1944
Box   1
Folder   37
Directories of public health nurses in Wisconsin (recent years), 1969-1973
Box   1
Folder   38
Directory of Wisconsin public health nurses in leadership positions, 1973-1979
Box   2
Folder   1
Directory of Wisconsin public health nurses in leadership positions, 1973-1979 (continued)
Box   2
Folder   2
Health departments, miscellaneous, histories and related materials, 1936-1970
Box   2
Folder   3
Douglas County Health Survey, undated
Box   2
Folder   4
Planning for the Care of the Aged and Chronically Ill, Brown County, Wisconsin, final report of the Citizens Study Committee, United Community Council of Brown County, April 1963
Box   2
Folder   5
Policy and program courses, legislation and legal opinions, 1969, 1975
Box   2
Folder   6
Public health reports, objectives and goals, 1969-1972
Box   2
Folder   7
Medicare before 1970, planning and policy development, 1965-1968
Box   2
Folder   8
Tuberculosis, skin testing, 1964-1974
Box   3
Folder   1
Exhibit materials prepared for Wisconsin Public Health Association, statistics from the 1927 Annual Report of the Voluntary Agencies Employing Public Health Nurses, 1972
Scrapbooks
Box   3
Folder   2
Newspaper clippings scrapbook, 1932-1934
Box   4
Folder   3
Indian Clinics in Wisconsin scrapbook, 1919, 1930-1931
Box   4
Folder   5
Theta C. Mead scrapbook, circa 1917-1922
Photographs
Box   4
Folder   1
Cornelia Van Kooy and unidentified public health nurses, photograph, undated
Box   4
Folder   2
First state conference of Public Health Nurses, group photograph, March 30-April 1, 1920
Box   4
Folder   4
Public Health Nurses exhibit in Waukesha County, undated