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Microfilm Reels of the Committee for the Nation's Health Records from the Michael M. Davis Collection, In the New York Academy of Medicine 1939-1955 (bulk 1946-1955)
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Title: Microfilm Reels of the Committee for the Nation's Health Records from the Michael M. Davis Collection, In the New York Academy of Medicine
Creator: Committee for the Nation's Health Records
Dates: 1939-1955 (bulk 1946-1955)
Extent: 12 Microfilm reels
Abstract:
Incorporated 1946 with Michael M. Davis, Ph.D., as chair of its Executive Committee, its purpose was to promote national health insurance. With the election of Eisenhower in 1952 it began to function as a health information office for organized labor. The committee was abolished in January, 1956.

Call number: MS Film 32
Language: Collection materials primarily in English.