Part 1 (Mss 843, PH Mss 843, Micro 2088, Disc 206A, Audio 1294A, AB 728): Original Collection, 1904-1993
Physical Description: 102.9 cubic feet (244 archives boxes, 6 records center cartons, and 1 oversize folder), 5 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 66 disc recordings, 105 photographs, 17 negatives, and 1 film 
Scope and Content Note

The State Medical Society of Wisconsin Records, 1904-1993, consist of ten series: MEETINGS, COMMITTEES AND STUDIES, PUBLICITY, ADMINISTRATIVE FILES, LEGISLATIVE FILES, INVESTIGATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS FILES, SUBJECT FILES, SICKNESS INSURANCE, MEDICAL LIABILITY and DECEASED PHYSICIANS FILES. The bulk of the collection documents the period from 1930 to 1975. There is less than .5 cubic foot of material that dates before 1925. The collection mainly documents the activities of the Society, not medical research or the achievements of individual physicians. The collection is especially good at documenting the work of Society members on legislative issues; the changes in concerns, attitudes and practices of Wisconsin physicians over the years; the development of the prepaid sickness insurance industry in Wisconsin; and studies sponsored by the Society on a wide range of issues, such as the health needs of school children and physicians' attitudes about malpractice. Almost all of the material in the collection documents the activities of Society members rather than the staff. Therefore, there is not much information on the administration of the Society or services offered to members, such as insurance and continuing education.

The MEETINGS series is arranged chronologically by year. It contains information on Council, House of Delegates, Executive Committee of the Council, and annual meetings. However, the documentation is incomplete. The series contains minutes, transcripts of proceedings, meeting programs, press releases, delegate packets, correspondence and memoranda. This series documents how the Society was governed, how policy decisions were made, and the debates between members over legislative or public policy issues. The series also contains material from several medical society secretaries conferences from 1927 to 1938.

The series contains material on six special sessions of the House of Delegates. Three of the sessions (1946, 1958 and 1973) dealt with Wisconsin Physicians Service (WPS) insurance plan. The folders on the 1963 special session contain a verbatim transcript of the proceedings in which the participants discuss the results of an extensive study of the Society's organization and administration. The transcript not only documents the internal workings of the Society, but it also underscores changes the medical profession was undergoing at the time. The survey provoked controversy among staff members, and a small amount of material documenting this controversy is located in the Administrative Files series. The material on the 1971 session documents physicians' concerns about two legislative measures: a bill allowing hospitals and health maintenance organizations to employ physicians; and a certificate of need bill, which required the state Department of Health and Social Services to approve any construction or expansion of services by hospitals and clinics. The material on the 1975 session contains information on the medical malpractice insurance crisis in Wisconsin.

Additional information on Council meetings, 1923-1978, and House of Delegates meetings, 1903-1968 can be found in the Wisconsin Medical Journal. Published summaries of Society meetings from 1880 to 1902 are located in the University of Wisconsin's Health Sciences Library.

The COMMITTEES AND STUDIES series documents the most active component of the Medical Society. The series is arranged in two subseries: State Medical Society and State of Wisconsin. The committees and studies in the State Medical Society subseries were all funded and organized by the Society, but several people who were involved were not members of the Society. The material in the State of Wisconsin subseries documents committees organized by state government in which Society members and staff were actively involved. Within each subseries, the material is arranged alphabetically by key word, with a folder on a major 1974 committee restructuring at the beginning of the series. Sometimes the name of a committee changed without any change in structure and function. In these cases, the earlier name of the committee is listed in parentheses after the later name.

The series consists of meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda and resolutions. This material contains information on the research and discussion physicians participated in before recommending actions and position stances to the Council and House of Delegates. There is also information on many programs and issues that were never acted on by these two bodies. The series is especially good at documenting how physicians reacted to major developments in the medical field, such as the introduction of health maintenance organizations, and how their attitudes changed towards certain diseases, such as mental illness. It also documents advances in treatment for specific illnesses, such as diabetes, and how those advances were implemented by physicians. Topics that are especially well documented by this series include mental health, alcoholism and drug addiction, health care for the elderly, occupational health, and the distribution of health care. Material on the women's auxiliary, a social and service group for physicians' wives, is located in this series. Material on committees and studies that dealt mainly with sickness insurance or medical liability are located elsewhere in the collection.

Of special note in this series is material on two studies of health care, one in Wisconsin jails and the other on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The material on the Menominee Indians contains several photographs of residents and homes. These photographs are housed in the Visual Materials subseries of the archives.

There are two problems with access to the records in this series. First, the names, duties and structure of the committees constantly changed, so it may be difficult for a researcher to follow the work on a particular issue. Secondly, there are many gaps in the records. Some committees and studies are not documented at all, and the documentation for many others appears incomplete.

The PUBLICITY series documents the public relations activities of the Society, aimed at both members and the general public. The material is arranged into the following categories: bulletins and correspondence to members, press releases, March of Medicine radio show, photographs, and film. Each category is arranged chronologically. The bulletins and correspondence to members were originally pasted into scrapbooks, and are now available only on microfilm. This category contains copies of items that were sent to Council and House of Delegate members and the larger membership. Items include legislative updates, programs, listings of membership services, commemorative booklets on major members or events, and letters regarding budget and policy changes. This is the best place in the collection to examine the full range of activities and concerns of the Society from 1926 to 1944. Because of the way items were pasted into the scrapbooks, some of the material is slightly out of order.

The press releases from 1926 to 1942 are on microfilm, and those from 1951 to 1976 are in paper format. There are no press releases from 1943 to 1950 in the collection. The microfilmed press releases are mostly from the Society's Health Committee. These releases were sent weekly to most Wisconsin newspapers, and deal with a wide variety of public health and nutrition issues. They provide information on the kinds of advice physicians gave to patients during the period, and they also give insight into physicians' attitudes towards patients. The releases in paper format are much more varied. Their topics include Society activities, accomplishments of individual members, positions on legislation, and public health advice.

The weekly half hour March of Medicine radio show was produced by the Society for thirty years, but the collection contains only two years' recordings (1949-1951). Each episode usually focused on one health problem. At the end of the discussion, there were sometimes comments about the Society's recent activities and suggestions for actions listeners could take to influence legislators on particular issues. There are undated recordings of several other episodes of the show in the W.W. Bauer Papers held by the Historical Society (Series U.S. Mss 7AF).

The photographs in this series mainly document Society events, such as award dinners and annual meetings. There are also a number of photographs of the Museum of Medical Progress in Prairie du Chien. The film in the series is a 1956 interview of two Society officers, Dr. E.L. Bernhardt and Dr. L.O. Simestad, in which they discuss the goals and activities of the Society.

The ADMINISTRATIVE FILES are arranged alphabetically by subject. Although this series dates from 1911 to 1985, the vast majority of the material dates from 1945 to 1965. It is the only place in the collection that contains substantial information on staff activities and decision making. It also helps to document the growth in the size and range of activities of the Society. The most complete part of this series is the material on conferences and continuing education programs. This material not only documents the topics of the conferences, but also why and how topics were chosen and how participants reacted to the information provided.

The LEGISLATIVE FILES are divided into four subseries: general, federal, state, and lobbying administration. The general subseries is arranged chronologically, and the other subseries are arranged alphabetically by subject. The general subseries consists mainly of Society bulletins and memoranda giving brief synopses, position statements, and recommended actions on a wide variety of bills. The federal and state subseries contain testimony, resolutions, correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, and analyses of legislative action on particular topics. Individual folders in these two subseries may contain material on a large number of bills over the years. Also, there may be wide chronological gaps within any individual folder because many issues lay dormant for a number of years or because Society members were not concerned with all legislation on the topic. The lobbying administration subseries mainly documents the activities of the Wisconsin Physicians Political Action Committee.

The Society's Commission on Public Policy seems to have produced much of the material in this series. The series documents changes in the ways physicians tried to influence legislators over the years. It also shows the evolution of physicians' opinions on many issues, such as medical care for the poor and Social Security benefits. There is also some information on the Society's court challenges to several laws, and on major problems concerning Wisconsin Physicians Service which were brought before the legislature. Unfortunately, this series does not contain very much material dated after 1975, when the Society became much more active in legislative affairs.

Other topics that are especially well documented in this series include chiropractors and other non-physician medical practitioners, medical assistance, sickness insurance, hospitals, and the anti-vivisection movement.

The INVESTIGATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS FILES are arranged alphabetically by name of organization or individual. Charles Crownhart, secretary of the Medical Society from 1942 to 1970, collected much of the material in this series and regularly used it for reference. After 1970 various staff members sporadically added material to the files. Most of the folders contain correspondence between the Society and other organizations discussing joint projects and concerns. They also contain newspaper clippings, brochures and reports on the organizations' goals and activities. Unfortunately, most of these files are small, and it appears that many items were permanently removed by staff members in the course of their work. A few files, especially those on specific products or individuals, document actual investigations by the Society. These investigations usually involved Charles Crownhart corresponding with several clients and other medical organizations to determine the validity of the claims of suspicious medical products or services. The series contains very little information on follow-up actions of Medical Society staff or members after an investigation was completed.

Organizations that are well documented in this series include other medical associations, especially those dealing with medical specialties; foundations and research institutes concerned with advancing knowledge on particular diseases; insurance companies; and Wisconsin sanitoriums and asylums. These files document cooperation among various sectors of the health industry, especially in Wisconsin, on a wide variety of issues. The files on organizations that provided administrative services, such as advertising and directories, to people in the medical field, often contain detailed information on the members, budget, and programs of the Medical Society.

The SUBJECT FILES series is arranged alphabetically. This series was probably assembled for reference by the Society secretary, and actively used by the entire staff. Unfortunately, many attachments and documents that are referred to in memoranda in this series were never returned to the files by the staff. The files contain newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports, court cases, legal opinions, press releases, and booklets on a wide range of topics of concern to physicians. Most of the documents in the series were produced by outside organizations, but many are annotated by Society members. Also, the series contains a fair number of reports and memoranda written by Society staff and members. The topics documented include new medical procedures and drugs; particular diseases and illnesses; medical ethics issues, such as patient confidentiality and euthanasia; administration of medical practice; non-physician medical practitioners; and public health and safety issues, such as civil defense and water quality. The best documented topic is poor relief, which has three and a half boxes of material. The poor relief material dates from the 1930s, when Wisconsin officials began discussing a complete reorganization of the publicly funded health care system for the poor.

This series documents the Society's initiatives on numerous issues and its involvement with governmental, non-profit and private organizations. There is also a fair amount of documentation of legal cases in which the Society was involved, especially from the earlier years. However, there is not much documentation here on the Society's positions on particular subjects. For that information, researchers should consult the meetings and legislative files series.

The SICKNESS INSURANCE series documents the topic most extensively researched, discussed and acted upon by Medical Society members. The series is arranged in four subseries: reference files; studies and committees; Wisconsin Physicians Service; and Medicare and Medicaid. The studies and committees subseries is arranged chronologically by date of initial activity. The other subseries are arranged alphabetically by subject or name.

The reference files date from 1928 to 1976, but the majority of the material dates from 1935 to 1945, when the Society was intensely researching the issue of prepaid sickness insurance. The items in these files were generated by individuals and organizations other than the Medical Society. They include studies, reports, insurance plans, and position statements on insurance from organizations and individuals worldwide, although most material is from the United States. This subseries provides insight into the debates surrounding prepaid sickness insurance during its infancy.

The studies and committees subseries documents the Society's work on studying and implementing early prepaid sickness insurance plans in Wisconsin. It includes correspondence, meeting minutes, testimony and reports. The earliest material documents an intense two year effort by Society staff and members to collect information on health care in Wisconsin, potential interest in insurance, and the costs of insurance. The material on fact-finding meetings of the Special Committee to Study Distribution of Sickness Care in Wisconsin contains data on disease, income, schools, family structure and other social welfare conditions in many Wisconsin cities and towns in 1937 and 1938. The later material in the subseries documents the Society's attempts to implement various insurance programs throughout the state. The county experiments material in the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Sickness Insurance documents the initial efforts and provides information on the unexpected questions and problems that faced early insurance programs. The rest of the subseries documents the initial development and administration of several insurance programs sponsored by the Society, especially the Wisconsin Plan. Some of the meeting minutes also contain substantial information on Wisconsin Physicians Service. This material documents well the early concerns of Wisconsin physicians about prepaid sickness insurance and the steps the Society took to alleviate those concerns.

The Wisconsin Physicians Service (WPS) subseries documents the administration of WPS before it separated from the Medical Society in 1976. It includes correspondence, financial records, sample contracts, meeting minutes, benefit listings, and memoranda on problem claims. The folders on Blue Cross and Surgical Care, Inc. provide information on the competition and conflict that occurred within the insurance industry when it began expanding exponentially. The series also documents how the WPS leaders decided on changes in the types and amounts of benefits the company offered.

The Medicare and Medicaid subseries contains reports, court documents, meeting minutes and newspaper clippings that document the Society's involvement with these two programs. Of special interest is the material on the Dependents Medical Care Program, an early Medicare program that the Society helped to administer in Wisconsin.

The MEDICAL LIABILITY series documents both the internal efforts of the Society and efforts performed in conjunction with state government to deal with medical malpractice issues. The bulk of the material dates from the mid-1970s malpractice insurance crisis in Wisconsin, but there is also substantial material from the 1980s. The series provides information on the escalation of malpractice claims during this period and the reaction of physicians and the insurance industry to this phenomenon. The publicity material is especially good at providing details about the nature of physicians' problems and concerns with the situation. The series also provides substantial information on the Society's involvement with the Wisconsin Health Care Liability Insurance Plan (WHCLIP), a state sponsored malpractice insurance program.

The DECEASED PHYSICIANS FILES provide biographical information on many Society members. The files include applications, Selective Service registration forms, commemorative booklets, obituaries, newspaper clippings and speeches. They are arranged in three groups, and within each group alphabetically by last name. Most of the material in the first group is on physicians who died in the 1940s and 1950s, the second on physicians who died in the 1960s, and the third group on physicians who died in the 1970s. However, there is overlap between groups. Also, the first group contains a smattering of material on physicians who died between 1904 and 1939. The third group only contains files on members who played a major role in the Society.

Series: Meetings

1925, State Medical Society Officers Luncheon

1927, Health Officers of Wisconsin Conference

1927-1928, Secretaries Conferences

1929

1930

General

Secretaries Conference

1931

General

Secretaries Conference

Round table on organization of cancer clinics in general hospitals

1932-1933

1934-1937

1938

General

Secretaries Conference

1939-1940

1941-1944

1944-1945

1946

General

Special session of House of Delegates on surgical care plan of Medical Society of Milwaukee County

1947-1948

1948-1950

1950-1951

1951-1954

1954-1958

1958

General

Special session of House of Delegates on prepaid medical care programs in Wisconsin

1959-1961

1961-1962

1963

General

General (continued)

Extraordinary session of House of Delegates on Booz, Allen and Hamilton management survey

1964-1965

1965-1967

1968-1970

1970-1971

1971

General

Special session of House of Delegates on hospital legislation

1972

1972-1973

1973

General

Special session of Council on Wisconsin Physicians Service incorporation

1974

1974-1975

1975

General

Special session of House of Delegates on malpractice

1976

1976-1979

1979

Alphabetical index to House of Delegates actions, 1942-1964

Review of actions of House of Delegates by year, 1956-1962

Series: Committees and Studies

Subseries: State Medical Society of Wisconsin

Committee restructuring proposal, 1974

Advertising, 1945

Aging, extended care facilities and home health care (geriatrics)

1953-1982

1982-1990

Alcoholism and other drug abuse

1967-1988

1988

Audit and budget, 1951-1952

Blood banks, 1952-1955

Brain death, 1977-1980

Cancer, 1936-1976

Chest diseases

1944-1960

1960-1973

Chiropractic, 1972-1977

Clinical medicine, 1957-1963

Continuing medical education (scientific medicine)

1938-1954

1955-1983

1985-1993

Coordination of medical services, 1948-1952

Delivery and cost of medical care, 1976-1978

Diabetes, 1957

Disaster medical care (civil defense), 1950-1961

Distribution of medical services, 1932

Drug formulary

1971-1973

1974-1975

Ear, nose and throat, 1967-1973

Economic medicine, 1961-1978

Environmental and occupational health

1977-1984

1984-1988

Federal legislative, 1959

Federal legislation, 1975-1986

Governmental affairs

General

1975-1979

1979-1985

Correspondence, 1980-1985

Reports, 1976-1984

Handicapped children (crippled children)

1937-1955

1956-1973

Health and public instruction, 1936-1948

Health care costs (cost containment)

1975-1984

1984-1987

Health care data, 1985-1986

Health care financing and delivery, 1987-1990

Health care for uninsured, 1988-1989

Health care for uninsured and indigent in Wisconsin

1986

, 1986 (continued)

Health economics of American life, 1962-1964

Health facilities and services

General, 1975-1976

Comments on , 1978 state health plan

Health information, 1967-1975

Health manpower, 1984-1985

Health planning, 1981-1985

Health practitioners

1978-1981

1981-1982

Health screening and immunization, 1979

Hearing, 1967

Historical, 1951-1953

Hospital relations and medical education, 1941-1974

Independent department of health, 1978-1979

Indo-Chinese refugee health project, 1979-1981

Jail health care, 1978-1981

Correspondence with American Medical Association

Meetings

Speeches

Inmate health education project

Jailer training

Maternal and child welfare

General

1938-1982

1982-1985

Maternal mortality study, 1952-1973

Medical care, 1984-1985

General

Work group 1: Reimbursement and delivery systems

Work group 2: Quality of care issues

Work group 3: Competition and regulation

Work group 4: Hospital medical staff relations

Work group 5: Physician contracts and negotiations

Medical economics

Medical education and hospitals, 1950

Medical manpower, 1989

Medical practice act, 1968

Medicine, religion and ethics, 1968-1990

Menominee Indian Reservation study

1960-1963

1964-1975

Photographs

Mental health

General

1977-1982

1982-1990
Access Restrictions: See the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Survey of psychiatrists regarding Medicaid, 1982

Mental hygiene and institutional care, 1943-1952

Midwifery in Wisconsin, 1973

Migrant workers health, 1954

Military medical service

General, 1948-1973

Selective Service procedures manual, 1947-1963

Nervous and mental diseases

General

1953-1959

1959-1968

Subcommittee on clinical psychologists, 1954-1956

Subcommittee on commitment laws, 1953-1964

Subcommittee on the disturbed child

1953-1957

1957-1958

Nursing education, 1953

Occupational health (industrial health), 1942-1978

Open panels, 1938-1956

Ophthalmology

1948-1965

1965-1972

1972-1977
Access Restrictions: See the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Peer review (Utilization review programs), 1966-1972

Physicians Alliance

General

1975-1976

1976-1982

1982-1986

Ad Hoc Committee to Review Activities, 1979

Physician distribution, 1979-1981

Physician opinion surveys, 1975-1984

Physicians Task Force on Health Planning Council, 1979-1980

Physicians unions, 1973-1984

Planning, 1966

Public assistance (public welfare), 1943-1964

Public health

1979

1980-1981

Public health consequences of nuclear armaments, 1984-1987

Public information, 1975-1992

Public policy

General

1930-1952

1952-1966

1967-1975

Chiropractic study, 1954

Public relations and communications (medical service)

1944-1947

1948-1960

1960-1964

Quality assurance, 1980

Quality care activities, 1978

Redistricting, 1965-1974

Rehabilitation, 1947-1970

Rural health

Committee on, 1975-1976

Task force on, 1987-1988

Rural health and accident prevention, 1944-1952

Safe transportation

1956-1970

1971-1985

1986-1990

Salk polio vaccine, 1955

School health

1944-1984

1984-1988

Shortage of physicians

General, 1968-1974

Legislative survey, 1972-1973

Small area variation analysis demonstration project, 1985-1986

Social security for physicians, 1956-1960

Specialty sections

1939-1965

1966-1974

State departments, 1953-1975

Television, 1954

Trauma, 1976

University of Wisconsin Medical School

1954-1964

1964-1981

Veterans, 1946

Vision, 1967-1975

Visual and hearing defects, 1945-1966

Wisconsin General Hospital, 1932-1933

Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association, 1947-1954

Wisconsin Medical Journal, 1958-1972

Women's auxiliary

1931-1959

1959-1974

Women's health issues

1979-1980

1980

Women physicians, 1981-1987

Work Projects Administration health projects, 1941-1942

Subseries: State of Wisconsin

Acute care, 1984-1985

Aged

1951-1952

1952

Alcoholism

Bioethics

Special committee, 1984-1985

Study committee, 1985

Block grant planning, 1981-1983

Categorization, 1986

Chapter 150 assessment, 1984

Child/school health project, 1934

Child/school health project, 1934 (continued)

Education of health workers, 1972

Emergency medical services, 1975

Financing health care

Health care provider systems, 1983-1984

Health manpower, 1974

Health planning and policy, 1971-1972

Area health education centers proposal

Members and reports

Health policy council, 1984-1986

Health task force, 1971

Hospital rate setting committee, 1984

Licensure and relicensure, 1972

Life and disability, 1983

Long term care, 1980-1985

Medical education

Advisory committee, 1970-1971

Governor's task force, 1967-1969

Mental health

Advisory committee, 1961-1964

Advisory council, 1983-1986

Mental retardation planning, 1963-1965

Nursing homes

Advisory committee, 1951

Regulation, 1984-1985

Organ transplantation, 1984-1985

Post-hospital construction moratorium

1980-1982

1982-1983

Prevention and wellness, 1978-1979

Primary prevention, 1984-1986

Public health

Priorities, 1985

Statutes and rules, 1982

Reclassification and review of administrative agencies and state agencies, 1948

State health/medical facilities plan development, 1985

Workers Compensation advisory council, 1985

Series: Publicity

Bulletins and correspondence to members

1926 January 1-1933 February 3

1933 February 4-1935 December 31

1936 January 1-1938 December 31

1939 January 1-1944 December 31

Press releases

1926-1927

1928-1942

1951

1951-1955, 1957-1961

1961-1965

1965-1969

1969-1976

March of Medicine; radio show, 1949-1950

Hot Weather Warning and Summer Round-Up

Gallbladder and Hypertension

Cancer of the Lung and The Prostrate Gland

Heart Facts and Period of Pregnancy

Coronary Sclerosis and Your Weight May Mean Your Life

Essential Hypertension and Gall Bladder Disease

Kidney Stone and Thyroid Gland

Sanitation, An Unfinished Job and The Public Health Laboratory

Surgery in Infancy and Surgery in Cancer

Tonsils In or Out and Vitamins

What's Being Done About Alcoholism and Winnegago State Hospital

Polio Facts and Facts About Cortisone and ACTH

Minor Cuts and Bruises and How About Colitis

Fear Food Poisoning and Maybe It's Peptic Ulcer

Regional Blood Center, #1 and #2

Sinusitis Facts and Acne

Tuberculosis and Preventive Medicine for Children

Artificial Feeding Can Be Good and Babies Who Fail to Gain

Care of Baby's Skin and Breast Feeding is Best

Romance and the Rh Factor and Some Facts About Surgical Shock

The Broken Bone and Encouraging Facts About Epilepsy

Guarding the Food Front and Contagious Diseases

Prenatal Care, #1 and #2

Hemorrhoids and The Common Cold

Teen-Age Problems and Shock

Diabetes Mellitus and Rheumatic Fever

Cancer, #1 and #2

About Your Heart and Hospitals

Your Doctor's Education and Hernia

Cure for Cancer and Tuberculosis

Allergic Diseases and The Problem of Old Age
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Digestive Upsets and You and Your Baby
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Kiddie Camp Rest Home Patients and Kiddie Camp Rest Home Staff

Menopause and Difficulty of Diagnosis

Ear Troubles and Hair-lip and Cleft Palate

Varicose Veins and Facts About Hernia

Summer Hazards and Those Precious Eyes

Blue Baby Bombshell and Unlabeled

Neurosurgery and Surgery of the Chest

It Might Be Anemia and A Most Precious Material

It's That Rheumatism Again and Some More About Rheumatism

How's Your Rorschach and Just What Is Angina Pectoris

Abdominal Surgery and Surgery of the Thyroid

The Need for Nurses and You Could Have Diabetes

Heart Disease and Diabetes

Back-ache and Leukemia

Varicose Veins and Bronchial Asthma

Maybe You're Diabetic and The Handicapped Child

Health in Our Schools and Public Health Nursing

Children and Medicine Cabinets and Tetanus

Cerebral Palsy and Post-natal Care

Mendota State Hospital, #1 and #2

Treatment for Burns and Alcoholism

Unlabeled

Winter Accidents and Institutions for Treatment of Mental Disease

Tonsillitis and Polio

Psychomatic Medicine and Kidney-Stone

Mental Health and Pneumonia

Childhood Diseases and The Self-Demand Method

Peptic Ulcers and School Health Program

Interview with Dr. Worley and Interview with Dr. Stovall

The Disease Called Epilepsy and Treatments for Tuberculosis

Unlabeled

Unlabeled

Unlabeled

Unlabeled

Photographs, 1942-1975, undated

Film, Bernhardt-Simestad interview, 1956

Series: Administrative Files

Activities, 1950-1951

Advertising, 1952-1955

Affirmative action programs, 1974

Audit, 1954-1965

Bonds, 1933-1953

Bowling tournament for medical doctors, 1957-1969

Candidates forum, 1950

Commission appointments by council chairman, 1964, 1968

Community achievement awards, undated

Conferences and post-graduate training

Athletic injuries, 1958-1959

Biomedical ethics, 1985

Cancer, 1947-1961

Circuit/Spring clinics

1940-1949, undated

1950-1965

Depression, 1964

Elderly, 1965-1966

Electrocardiography, 1963-1963

Farm accidents, 1970-1972

Health fads and fallacies, 1963-1965

Hospital administrators, 1964

In-depth programs, 1963-1970

Industrial health, 1944-1954

Inhalation therapy, 1957-1959

Internships, 1961

Mortality, 1958-1963

Medical press relations, 1952

Mental deficiency, 1954

Mental retardation, 1961

Newborns, 1960-1964

Occupational health, 1966-1971

Pediatrics, 1966

Planning and promotion

1952-1953

1952-1953

Prematurity, 1954-1962

Psychiatry in general practice, 1964

School health, 1952

Strokes, 1962

Town/gown, 1966

Women's health issues, 1979

Councilor districts

General, 1949-1959

First-thirteenth, 1943-1965

County medical societies, Relationship with, 1946

Dissertation proposal, 1973

Donations, 1949

Employees

Fair labor standards, 1950

Insurance, 1946-1958

Pension plan, 1957-1967

Safety, 1957-1959

Salaries, 1942-1951

Sick leave, 1947-1949

Employment stabilization, 1943-1945

Federal wage and hours law, 1940-1952

Financial reports, 1911-1938

Floor plans, 1941-1945

Foundation fund, 1927-1932

French physicians visit to State Medical Society, 1962-1962

Headquarters

Construction and maintenance, 1955-1958

Dedication, 1954-1956

Historian, 1965-1970

Honorary pins, 1940

Hospital awards program, 1959-1961

House of Delegates procedures, 1926-1947

Incorporation, 1938

Insurance, 1943, 1947-1948, 1962

Inventory, 1936

Lease, 1936-1947

Lease for branch office, 1957-1962

Legal services, 1950, 1958-1965

Liability for damages, 1956

Mailing service, 1951, 1962

Management survey by Booz, Allen and Hamilton, 1960-1964

March of Medicine radio show, 1952-1955, 1976

Medical antiques show, 1976

Medical associate brochure, 1951-1954

Medical blue book, 1941-1942

Medical school graduation luncheons, 1967-1969

Meetings, 1950-1953

Meetings requiring permits, 1945

Membership, delinquent fees, 1934

Membership enrollment forms, 1949-1950

Membership statistics, undated

Microfilming, 1956-1965

Museum of Medical Progress, 1967-1974

Newsletter to men in service, 1942-1945, 1951

Nurses and secretaries training, 1952

Oath of office, 1959

Organization, 1948-1956

Payroll cost accounting, 1954

Police officer training, 1954-1956

Press and radio code, undated

Publications

Guide to services, undated

“Health Achievements in Wisconsin,” 1940-1942

“War Without Guns,” 1953-1959

“What Does It Do for Me,” 1937

Restaurant regulation, 1951

Scientific fellows, 1967-1968

Secretary's report, 1944

Securities, 1947

Slide presentation script, 1971-1974

Speakers bureau

General, 1947-1963

Notes, 1949-1951

Speakers' directories, 1965-1967

Staff conferences, 1949-1953

Staff memoranda, 1947-1953

Statue commissioning

General

Photograph

Student loan funding

General, 1950-1957

Publicity, 1951-1952

Solicitation of funds, 1951-1954

Taxes, 1939, 1944-1949, 1952, 1962, 1966

Travel forms, 1950

Treasurer's reports, 1943-1951

Wisconsin Plan, 1959-1963

Work Week of Health, 1963-1980

Workmen's compensation policy, 1937-1948

Series: Legislative Files

Subseries: General

1923-1935

1937-1965

Subseries: Federal

Anti-vivisection, 1949

Blood banks, 1964

Budget, 1981

Cancer, 1946

Child abuse, 1984

Chiropractic, 1941-1958

Federal Trade Commission, 1980-1982

Health, Department of, 1952

Health manpower, 1980

Health planning, 1982

Health program for government employees, 1946-1953

Laboratory services, 1981

Lobbying, 1951

Maternal and child welfare, 1926-1946

Medical assistance

General, 1965, 1980-1982

Forand bill, 1957-1961

Kerr-Mills bill

1960-1963

1963-1964

King-Anderson bill, 1960-1965

Medical care insurance, 1961-1973

Medical records, 1980

Medical students deferment, 1945

Mental health, 1945-1946

Narcotics, 1930-1955

National administration program, 1948-1949

National health care reform, 1981

National health insurance, 1943-1959

Occupational safety and health, 1970-1972

Peer review improvement, circa 1980

Pension plans-Keogh bills, 1957-1961, 1982

Sickness insurance

Taft bill, 1946-1948

Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill, 1936-1948

Small business innovation research, 1981

Tissue transplants, 1968

Unemployment compensation, 1941

Veterans, 1953

Wage stabilization, 1943-1952

Subseries: State

Abortion, 1931-1952

Abortives, 1945

Administrative procedure, 1943

Adoption, 1958-1959

Advertising, political, 1951

Aged, 1951-1952

Aid to dependent children, 1943

Alcohol, medicinal, 1934-1935

Alcoholism and other drug abuse, 1947, 1984-1985

Ambulance speed control, 1964

Anatomical gifts, 1959-1969

Antenuptial physical examinations, 1939

Anti-trust, 1948-1950

Anti-vivisection, 1935-1952, 1980-1981

Atomic medicine, 1957

Attendants, licensed, 1943-1945

Automobile safety, 1935-1961

Autopsies, 1949-1952

Basic science

1922-1936

1937-1975
Access Restrictions: See the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Benzedrine and benzoic acid, 1947-1949

Birth certificates, 1943

Blind, 1937-1943

Blood, 1963-1964

Blood tests and paternity, 1935, 1953-1957

Blue Cross, 1959-1963

Board of Health, 1943-1967

Bread and flour enrichment, 1945

Budget, 1943, 1961, 1981, 1983

Burial of indigents, 1935

Cancer, 1933, 1952-1954

Child abuse, 1976

Child seat restraints, 1983

Chiropody, 1927-1961

Chiropractic

General

1923-1959

1959-1983, undated

Exams and education, 1935-1953

Title “Doctor”

1937-1953

1953-1966

Workers' compensation, 1928-1964

Commemorative stamp, highway safety, 1959-1964

Contagious indigents, 1935

Cooperatives, 1947-1955

Coroners, 1955

Death certificates, 1940-1970

Death, pronouncement of, 1971-1975

Disability benefits, 1943

Drugs, dangerous, 1935, 1953-1959

Educational certificates, 1951-1953

Epilepsy, 1947-1956

Estates and fee settlement, 1937

Eyeglasses, advertising of, 1945

Faith healing, 1958

Fee splitting, 1952-1963

Food handlers, 1947

Food sweeteners, 1949

Funeral directors and embalmers, 1948-1949

Geriatrics, 1957

Glue sniffing, 1963

Good Samaritan, 1963-1964

Government reorganization, 1966-1967

Handicapped children, 1936-1961

Health and social services budget, 1983

Health care cost containment, 1983

Health departments, 1947-1953

Health examinations, school employees, 1954-1955

Health insurance

General, 1978

Direct payment, 1949-1951

Franchise group, 1945

State employees, 1954-1955

Health needs in Wisconsin, 1953

Health officers, 1941-1953

Health units, 1947-1951

Hearing aid dealers, 1965-1969

Highway safety, 1954

Homes, convalescent and rheumatic fever, 1945-1948

Hospital service corporations, 1939-1949

Hospitalization insurance, groups, 1937-1940

Hospitals

Advisory council, 1948-1949

Approval bill, 1951-1953

Certificate of need, 1970-1974, 1983

City/county, 1948-1959

Civil rights, 1937-1939

Fee splitting with physicians

1956-1959

1959

1959-1960

Insurance, 1937-1946

Liability, 1954-1959

Licensing, 1946-1951

Lien law, 1933-1937, 1953

Survey and construction, 1948-1955

Tax status, 1954

Uniform standards, 1953

Wisconsin General

1930-1933

1933-1959

Indoor air, 1983

Industrial health, 1955

Institutional building program, 1949

Laboratory of hygiene, 1943-1965

Law Park roadway, 1955

License to treat sick, 1949-1955

Licensing bureau, central, 1953-1964

Licensing, temporary, 1942-1955

Lobbying, 1948-1949

Medical assistance, 1982-1983

Medical examining board, 1935-1981

Medical facilities, 1951-1953

Medical grievance committee, 1931-1967

Medical practice, 1924-1964

Medical records, 1960-1963, 1980-1981

Medical regulations, 1973-1974

Medical staff, counties, 1943

Medications in schools, 1983

Mental health, 1922-1984

Mental hospitals, 1935-1959

Midwifery, 1952-1953

Milk standards, 1957

Natural death, 1983

Naturopathy, 1935-1953

Nursing, 1931-1963

Old age assistance lien, 1943

Optometry, 1933-1983

Osteopathy, 1939-1971

Outpatient clinic services, 1961

Pacemakers, 1975-1976

Paramedics, 1974

Patient rights, 1983

Pharmacy, 1925

Physical therapy, 1943-1953

Physicians

Annual registration, 1943-1944

Cuban, 1961

Emergency employment, 1954

Foreign

1927-1939

1939-1959

Free choice of, 1935

Itinerant, 1926-1964

Name change, 1943-1944

State, 1935

Witness fees, 1951

Pneumonia serum, 1939

Podiatry, 1961-1971

Poor relief, 1933-1943

Postwar planning, 1943

Prisons, 1943

Professional liability, 1977

Psychiatric institute, 1943

Psychologists, 1955-1959

Psychology, Board of, 1962

Psychopathic personality, 1945

Public assistance notice requirements, 1957

Public welfare, 1929 and , 1943

Quackery, 1941-1953

Quarantine, 1935

Radiation, 1959-1970

Retirement, mandatory, 1961-1963

School health, 1951

Second opinion, 1980

Service corporations, 1961

Service corporations, 1961 (continued)

Sickness insurance

1933-1939

1939-1952

State Board of Medical Examiners, appropriations, 1928-1935

State employees salaries, 1946-1968

Sterilization, 1939

Taxes, 1935-1953

Tuberculosis, 1943

Venereal disease, 1937-1940, 1962, 1972

Veterans, 1943

Vital statistics, 1943, 1963-1964

Water pollution, 1966

Weeds, noxious, 1937-1943

Welfare department consolidation, 1947-1948

Workmen's compensation

1931-1948

1949-1968

Wrongful birth and life, 1983

Subseries: Lobbying administration

Correspondence and news clippings, 1945-1971

Expenses, 1925-1956, 1977-1984

Legislators' biographies, 1956-1962

Operation Contact, 1963

Wisconsin Physicians Political Action Committee (WISPAC)

Audit reports

1976-1978

1979-1981

Board meetings, 1978-1979

Candidate interviews, 1978

Correspondence, 1976-1986

Endorsements, 1986

Series: Investigations and Organizations File

A. H. Robins Company Physician Award for Community Service, 1967-1969

Academy of Family Physicians, 1948-1970

Academy of Orthopathic Spineology, 1954-1955

American Academy of Pediatrics, 1946-1947

American Association for Medico-Physical Research, 1952

American Blood Irradidation Society, 1952

American College of Physicians, 1946-1956

American College of Radiology, 1946-1962

American College of Surgeons, 1952-1961

American Dental Association, 1952-1962

American Hospital Association, 1957

American Medical Association

General, 1948-1958

Committee to Review the Structure of Standing Committees of the House of Delegates, 1951

Conference of State Secretaries and Editors, 1946-1951

Correspondence and memoranda, 1980-1981

Council on National Emergency Medical Service, 1946-1953

Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, 1944-1954

Council on Rural Health, 1948-1952

House of Delegates/meetings, 1923-1965

Malpractice study, 1956

National education campaign, 1949

Pamphlets, 1954-1955

Platform, 1939

Programs, 1950

Relationship Between Osteopathy and Medicine Committee, 1953

Student chapter, 1965

Twelve point program, 1950

Washington office, 1952-1957

American Medical Education Foundation, 1953-1962

American Osteopathic Association, 1951-1954

Antell, Charles, Formula #9, 1952

Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, 1948-1949, 1961-1971

Associated Hospital Service, Inc., 1950-1951

Bergholz Clinic, 1949-1959

Berry, Milton H., 1945-1950

Better Business Bureau of Milwaukee, 1943-1962

Birtcher Corporation, 1957

Campbell, J.A., 1965

Catholic Hospital Association, Wisconsin chapter, 1954-1960

Chicago College of Osteopathy, 1954

College of Divine Metaphysics, 1953

College of Swedish Massage, 1947-1953

Committee for the Nation's Health, 1951-1952

Conference of Presidents and Other Officers of State Medical Associations, 1946-1947

Cooperative Health Insurance Plan of Milwaukee, 1953-1955

Dane County Medical Society Public Relations Committee, 1955

Democratic National Committee, 1950

Doctor Jose P. Rizal-General Douglas MacArthur Memorial Foundation, 1967

Drugless Therapy Institute

1949

1949-1958

Employers Insurance of Wausau, 1969

Employers Mutual Liability Insurance Company, 1929-1969

Federation of American Boards of Medical Examiners, 1929-1964

Food and Drug Administration, 1951-1973

4-H Club, 1946-1957

Fromme Scalp Specialists, 1949-1957

George S. May Company, 1957

Geriatric Research Labs, 1959-1960

Governor's Committee on Children and Youth, 1965

Governor's Committee to Promote Employment of Physically Handicapped, 1947-1970

Governor's Conference on the Care of the Aging, 1956-1958

Governor's Conferences on Children and Youth, 1949-1970

Governor's Conference on Civil Rights, 1960

Group Health Association, 1952-1957

Hardware Mutuals Consulting Company, 1948-1960

Harmony Nursing Home, 1960

Health Insurance Council, 1949-1970

Health Insurance Institute, 1962

Health Planning Council, Inc., 1980-1982

Indiana State Medical Association, 1946-1964

Institute for Research in Biography, 1944-1959

Institute on the Slow Learner, 1949-1956

International Academy of Proctology, 1949-1964

International Association of Accident and Health Underwriters, 1950

International College of Surgeons, 1936-1956

International Medical-Legal Society, 1961

Interprofessional and Business Relations Committee, 1953-1961

Interprofessional Institute

General, 1955

Minutes of the first meeting, 1955

Interurban Academy of Medicine, 1945-1944

Iowa Medical Society, 1965

Joint Council for the Care of the Aged, 1959-1960

Kahlenberg Laboratories, 1934-1960

Kellogg Foundation, 1947-1954

Kenny Foundation, 1951-1956

Kidney Disease Foundation, 1959, 1972

Koch Cancer Treatment, 1963-1970

Krattsch's Arthritis Cure, 1953

Lakeview Sanatorium, 1933-1958

Laszlo Foundation, 1956-1957

Lawton School for Medical Assistants, 1951

Lea-Mendita Research Group, 1967

Lederle Laboratories, 1953

Lee Institution Research Foundation, 1960

Lee Nutritional Foundation, 1954-1965

Lemco Research Laboratory, 1955

Lemos Permagon, 1961

Leukemia Society, Inc., 1956

Levington Laboratory, 1958

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, 1946-1951

Liepe Methods Institute, 1931-1953

Life Extension Examiners, 1956-1959

Life Insurance Association of America, 1947-1950

Life Insurance Policyholders Protective Association, 1950

Lincoln Foundation, 1951-1956

Loesch Hair Experts, 1953

Lovelace Foundation, 1959

Lukats Health Culture, 1942-1953

Madison County, Indiana, Medical Society, 1952

Madison General Hospital Medical and Surgical Foundations, 1957-1958

Madison News Bureau, 1959

Madison Press Club, 1968

Management Science, Inc., 1967-1969

Manpower, Inc., 1965-1966

Marquette Medical Development Program, 1949-1962

Marquette University School of Dentistry, 1953

Martha Washington Home for Unwed Mothers, 1957-1961

Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1946-1951

Mayo Laboratories, 1942-1950

McArdle Memorial Laboratory, 1945-1964

McCleary Sanitorium, 1935-1955

Medical Center for Southeastern Wisconsin, 1968-1970

Medical Credit Exchange of Northeastern Wisconsin, Inc., 1954-1957

Medical-Dental-Hospital Bureau of America, Inc., 1962

Medical Directory, Inc., 1961

Medical Economics, Inc., 1944-1965

Medical Education Community Orientation Program, 1971

Medical Exhibitors Association, Inc., 1948-1950

Medical Foundation, Inc., 1961

Medical Health Industries, Inc., 1970

Medical Jewelry Company, 1956-1957

Medical Library Service, 1929-1954

Medical Protective Company, 1935-1963

Medical Radio and Television Institute, 1955

Medical Service Society of America, 1957-1962

Medical Societies Executives Conferences

1946-1950

1950-1965

Medical Society of Milwaukee County, 1954-1974

Medical Society of New Jersey, 1961-1962

Medical Veterans Society, 1953

Medicine of the Year, 1949-1952

Medimetric Institute, 1952-1958

Menominee Indian Reservation, 1956-1959

Menzel-Williams and Associates, 1967-1968

Metropolitan Casualty Company, 1940-1942

Metropolitan College of Business and Technology of Madison, Inc., 1968-1969

Metropolitan School of Medical Assistants, Milwaukee, 1966

Middle River Sanatorium, 1954-1955

Midwest Bar Picture Company, 1941-1943

Mid-West Extension Service, Milwaukee, 1953-1955

Midwest Medical Society Officers Conference, 1954-1955

Midwestern Psychological Services, 1960-1962

Milford Sanitarium, 1955-1958

Milwaukee Academy of Medicine, 1929-1967

Milwaukee Art Institute, 1951-1952

Milwaukee Blood Center, 1974

Milwaukee County Asylum for the Chronic Insane, 1946-1947, 1971

Milwaukee County Hospital, 1943-1952, 1967

Milwaukee County Institutions, 1946-1971

Milwaukee Eye Bank, 1960-1966

Milwaukee Health Department, 1952

Milwaukee Journal, 1942-1955

Milwaukee Labor Press, 1950-1960

Milwaukee Medical Center, 1948-1949, 1972

Milwaukee Neuro-Psychiatric Society, 1936-1960, 1970

Milwaukee Oto-Ophthalmic Society, 1940-1956

Milwaukee Sanitarium, 1933, 1937, 1961, 1972

Milwaukee Sentinel, 1948-1953

Mineral Fume Health System, 1942-1954

Mississippi River Human Service Center, 1975

Mollenhauer Sales, Inc., 1934-1958

Monarch Life Insurance Company, 1952

Monfils Kenosha Monument and Building Stone Company, 1959

Morningside Sanitorium, 1938-1952

Mueller Hair Experts, 1952

Muirdale Sanitarium, 1949

Multiple Sclerosis Society of Milwaukee, 1951-1960

Mulvi-Hill Vapo-Bath, 1954

Munro, Dr. D.C., 1962-1963

Muscle-Aid Company of Los Angeles, 1953

Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, 1940-1946

Mutual of Omaha, 1956

National Association of Clinic Managers, 1954-1959

National Association of Insurance Commissioners, 1951-1965

National Association of Social Workers, 1967

National Better Business Bureau, Inc., 1954-1965

National Board of Medical Examiners, 1927-1955

National Casualty Company, 1937-1938

National Chiropractic Association, 1959

National Christian Crusader, 1956

National Commission on Product Safety, 1969

National Conference of County Medical Society Officers, 1947-1950

National Conference on Medical Service, 1942-1952

National Conference on Rural Health, 1952-1954