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Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Collection Summary
Index Terms
Related Materials
Administrative Information
Restrictions
Series Descriptions
Personal
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1922-1972
Professional Meetings and Conferences
Reports, Surveys, Articles and Drafts
Research Materials, Reprints and Subject Files
Warren Frank Walker Papers, 1922-1941
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Finding Aid to the Ira Vaughn Hiscock Papers, 1920-1974
Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division
Processed by HMD Staff
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Dan Jenkins
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| Collection Number: | MS C 364 |
| Creator: | Hiscock, Ira Vaughn, 1892- |
| Title: | Ira Vaughn Hiscock Papers
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| Dates: | 1920-1974 |
| Quantity: | 3 linear feet (7 boxes) |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, drafts, reprints, and miscellaneous public health data. Includes material on: Arkansas-Mississippi flood (1927), "A national plan for health services" (1934), "Greater Boston community survey" (1949), and "A five year plan ... in Connecticut" (1964). Also contains health data relating to other countries, especially China. Includes notes and printed matter pertaining to W. Frank Walker. |
Ira Vaughn Hiscock (1892-1986) was born in Farmington, ME. He received his batchelor's degree from Wesleyan University and his masters and Ph.D. from Yale University. Trained as a bacteriologist, he joined Yale's School of Public Health faculty in 1920 and retired in 1960; an endowed professorship there now bears his name. He was member of the Connecticut Department of Health (1914-1917) and served as president of the National Health Council, the American Public Health Association, the Association of Schools of Public Health, and the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. He was also an active member of the World Health Organization. He was known as innovator in the areas of public health surveys in the U.S., and conducted similar studies in Samoa. Hiscock was a frequent consultant and volunteer to local, state, and national health councils and social welfare agencies.
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Collection contains correspondence, memoranda, clippings, drafts, reprints, and miscellaneous public health data that illustrate the efforts of local, state, and national social welfare agencies in dealing with social problems, especially during the Depression. Includes material on: Arkansas-Mississippi flood (1927), "A national plan for health services" (1934), "Greater Boston community survey" (1949), and "A five year plan ... in Connecticut" (1964). Also contains health data relating to other countries, especially China. Includes notes, articles and printed matter created by Watson Frank Walker.
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| MeSH Subjects |
| | Health Care Surveys |
| | Public Health |
| Personal Names |
| | Walker, Watson Frank, 1889?-1941 |
| Corporate Names |
| | American Public Health Association |
| | Yale University. School of Medicine. Dept. of Public Health |
| Geographic Names |
| | Connecticut |
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[Call Number, Collection Name, Series Number], Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, USA.
Gift, Acc. #75, 93.
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Personal
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| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 1 | Certificates |
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Correspondence and Memoranda, 1922-1972
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| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence, 1922-1929 |
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence, 1930-1934 |
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence, 1935-1936 |
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence, 1941 |
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence, 1942 |
| 1 | 7 | Correspondence, 1943-1952 |
| 1 | 8 | Correspondence, 1953-1954 |
| 1 | 9 | Correspondence, 1957-1959 |
| 1 | 10 | Correspondence, 1962 |
| 1 | 11-12 | Correspondence, 1963 |
| 1 | 13 | Correspondence, 1964-1966 |
| 1 | 14 | Correspondence, 1967-1972 |
| 1 | 24 | Correspondence - John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., 1927 |
| 1 | 15 | Memoranda, 1942-1947 |
| 1 | 16 | Memoranda, 1942-1947 |
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Professional Meetings and Conferences
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| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 17 | Meetings, 1926-1943 |
| 1 | 18 | Meetings, 1953-1961 |
| 1 | 19 | Meetings, comments |
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Reports, Surveys, Articles and Drafts
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| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 21 | Drafts, Book Reviews |
| 1 | 22 | Drafts: Memoranda, Articles, 1957-1962 |
| 1 | 23 | Drafts: Talks and Articles, 1964-1967 |
| 1 | 25-27 | "Survey of Conservation Service of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.", 1927 |
| 2 | 28 | "Conferences/Reports/Restricted" (Office of Foreign Relief), 1943 |
| 2 | 29 | Papers "Report of the Activities of the Subcommittee on State and Local Health Administration (APHA)"; "Drugs, Mental Health and Quality Health Care.", 1945-1969 |
| 2 | 30 | Reports, Agendas, Misc., 1933-1969 |
| 2 | 31 | Manuscripts - "Measurement of Health" |
| 2 | 32 | Manuscripts - "Report on Public Health", 1961 |
| 2 | 33 | "Study of Amoebic Dysentary in Ansonia", 1923 |
| 2 | 34 | "Report on State Health regarding Public Health Work in the Flood Area", 1927 |
| 2 | 35 | "Flood Problems of the Mississippi Valley", 1928 |
| 2 | 36-37 | "Survey of Public Health Activities in Los Angeles", 1928 |
| 2 | 38 | "Hawaii. Dept. of Instruction. Nutrition Division", 1929 |
| 2 | 39 | "The Medical Care and Protection of Children in . . .Hawaii", 1930 |
| 2 | 40 | Reports and Discussions, 1944 |
| 2 | 41 | "Metropolitan Health and Hospital Survey", 1946 |
| 2 | 42 | "Lessons From the Greater Boston Community Health Survey," & Public Health Organization in Utah", 1949 |
| 2 | 43-49 | "Greater Boston Community Survey", 1949 |
| 2 | 50 | Conference, Articles, 1952-1955 |
| 2 | 51 | Typescripts & Talk, 1956-1958 |
| 2 | 52 | Typescripts - Articles, 1960 |
| 2 | 53 | "Early New England Doctors in the Pacific", 1961 |
| 2 | 54 | "Goals for Tomorrow", 1962 |
| 2 | 55 | Articles, 1963 |
| 2 | 56 | "Chronic Illness", 1964 |
| 2 | 57 | Typescripts - Misc., 1967 |
| 2 | 58 | Typescripts & "Conference Summary, New England Public Health Association", 1969 |
| 3 | 60 | "Principles of Public Health for Medical and Public Health Graduate Students, Yale University, School of Medicine", 1920 |
| 3 | 61 | Reprint: "Health and Welfare in Honolulu, Hawaii", 1929 |
| 3 | 62 | Reprint: "Public Health in Hawaii", 1935 |
| 3 | 63 | Reprints, 1926-1956 |
| 3 | 64 | Reprints, 1957-1972 |
| 3 | 65 | Reprint: "Appraisal Form for Rural Health Work", 1927 |
| 3 | 66 | Reprint: "Appraisal Form for City Health Work", 1929 |
| 3 | 67 | Reprint: "Public Health in Hawaii, 1950", 1950 |
| 3 | 68 | Reprint: "Standards for Community Health Programs", 1966 |
| 3 | 69 | Reprint: "Crossroads", 1947 |
| 3 | 70 | Reprint: "First Report of the 1921 Committee on Municipal Health Dept. Practice of the A.P.H.A.", 1921 |
| 3 | 72 | Publication: "Health Careers Guidebook", 1955 |
| 3 | 73 | Publication: "Connecticut Pathways Toward Partnership Planning and Programs for Better Health Care", 1968 |
| 3 | 74 | Reprint: "The Hartford Survey", 1934 |
| 3 | 75 | Reprint: "What's The Score?", 1948 |
| 3 | 76 | Cartes Visite |
| 4 | 77 | Asia & Pacific Health, 1953 |
| 4 | 78 | Taiwan - "Brief Report....", 1952 |
| 4 | 79 | Taiwan - Health & Hospital Service in Taiwan", 1953 |
| 4 | 80 | China - "A Historical.....Talk", 1971 |
| 4 | 81 | China - Notes, Brochures, Maps, Misc., 1953 |
| 4 | 82 | Connecticut - "Treatment of Amoebic Dysentery, Entaeba Hist." |
| 4 | 83-84 | Connecticut - "A Five Year Plan for Chronic Illness and Health of the Aging in Connecticut", 1964 |
| 4 | 85 | Connecticut - Winslow and Hiscock, "Survey of Conditions Affecting the Health of the Children of Hartford", 1920 |
| 4 | 86 | Connecticut - "The First Cancer Register in CT", 1930 |
| 4 | 87 | Connecticut - "Good Health Care in CT", 1974 |
| 4 | 88 | Connecticut - "Conference Summary" - "Local Health.....", 1963-1968 |
| 4 | 89 | Connecticut - "Report to The American Public Health Ass.", 1967 |
| 4 | 90 | Mexico - Public Health - (Memorandum), 1932 |
| 4 | 91 | Tennesse - Health Education Project, 1934 |
| 4 | 92 | Tennessee Valley Authority, 1934-1941 |
| 4 | 93 | "A Health Program for Westport", 1921 |
| 4 | 94 | Hiscock - Misc. Notes, 1929-1961 |
| 4 | 95 | Yale Public Health Personnel Research Project, 1953 |
| 4 | 96 | Miscellaneous |
| 5 | 97 | Arkansas Flood Reports, 1927 |
| 5 | 98 | Arkansas Flood - Papers - Notes - Clippings, 1927 |
| 5 | 99 | Arkansas Flood - Maps, 1927 |
| 5 | 100 | Mississippi Flood - Bulletin, Reprints, 1927 |
| 5 | 101 | Arkansas, Mississippi Flood - Notes - Conferences, 1927 |
| 5 | 102 | Arkansas Flood - Misc. , 1927 |
| 5 | 103 | National Plan for Health Services - "Original Draft", 1934 |
| 5 | 104 | National Plan for Health Services - "Second Draft", 1934 |
| 5 | 105-106 | National Plan for Health Services - "As Presented" |
| 5 | 107 | National Plan for Health Services - "Proposed Plan" |
| 5 | 108 | National Plan for Health Services - "Outline of Final Report" |
| 5 | 110 | National Plan for Health Services - "Interim Report" |
| 5 | 109 | National Plan for Health Service - "Abstract of Program" |
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Research Materials, Reprints and Subject Files
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| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 20 | Newspaper Clippings, 1923-1974 |
| 6 | 146 | Misc. Papers by Various Authors |
| 6 | 147 | Papers by Williams McC. Hiscock, Pond, Winslow, Wolman |
| 6 | 148 | Papers by Biggs, Gaines, Hunter, Hsu, Monlin |
| 6 | 149 | Winslow, "Report on Atmospheric Conditions..." |
| 6 | 150 | Devereux, "New Horizons for the Handicapped", 1969 |
| 7 | 151 | Papers by: Clarke, Stevens, Mills, Hodogman |
| 7 | 152 | Papers by various Authors |
| 7 | 153 | Papers by various Authors |
| 7 | 154 | Public Health and Hospitals in the St. Louis Area, 1957 |
| 7 | 155 | Civil Defense Measures for the Protection of Children, 1941 |
| 7 | 156 | Statistics Manual for Public Health, 1951 |
| 7 | 157 | Cay Cairns, "Marilyn: A Play in two scenes", 1963 |
| 7 | 158 | The Education of Public Health Personnel |
| 7 | 159 | The Accreditation of North American Schools of Public Health, 1953 |
| 7 | 160 | Fifteen Indices: an aid in Reviewing State and Local Mental Health Programs, 1964 |
| 7 | 161 | Connecticut Cared and Now Accounts: Family Rehab. Program |
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Warren Frank Walker Papers, 1922-1941
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| W. Frank Walker was a past-president of the American Public Health Association. |
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| This sub-group contains notebook pages containing typed outline notes and articles by Walker on various public health topics. |
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| Box | Folder |
| 5 | 111 | W.F. Walker, 1922 |
| 5 | 112 | W.F. Walker, 1923 |
| 5 | 113 | W.F. Walker, 1924 |
| 5 | 114 | W.F. Walker, 1925 |
| 5 | 115-116 | W.F. Walker, 1926 |
| 5 | 117-118 | W.F. Walker, 1927 |
| 5 | 119-120 | W.F. Walker, 1928 |
| 5 | 121-124 | W.F. Walker, 1929 |
| 5 | 125-126 | W.F. Walker, 1930 |
| 5 | 127 | W.F. Walker, 1931 |
| 6 | 128-129 | W.F. Walker, 1932 |
| 6 | 130 | W.F. Walker, 1933 |
| 6 | 131 | W.F. Walker, 1934 |
| 6 | 132-133 | W.F. Walker, 1935 |
| 6 | 134 | W.F. Walker, 1936 |
| 6 | 135 | W.F. Walker, 1937 |
| 6 | 136-137 | W.F. Walker, 1938 |
| 6 | 138 | W.F. Walker, 1939 |
| 6 | 139-142 | W.F. Walker, 1940 |
| 6 | 143-145 | W.F. Walker, 1941 |
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| The bulk of Ira Hiscock's professional papers are located at the Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, MS 1284.
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