People’s Institute and Portland Free Dispensary Minutes of the Board of Directors 1919-1930

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People’s Institute and Portland Free Dispensary Minutes of the Board of Directors 1919-1930

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Started in 1904 by Valentine Prichard and a number of interested parties, the People's Institute grew over the years to provide services to the poor and those unable to pay for medical services. in 1910, members of the University of Oregon Medical School were appointed trustees and assigned fourteen staff to the dispensary. In 1931, after 24 years of operation, the People's Institute and Free Dispensary was re-deployed as the Outpatient Clinic and fully under the Medical School. This collection consists of minutes from the Board of Directors covering the years 1919 - 1930.

0.21 linear feet, 1 box

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Oregon Health and Science University Historical Collections and Archives

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People's Institute.

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The People’s Institute was organized in 1904 to improve living conditions for the women and children in the northern end of Portland. The impetus for the Institute was a report by Valentine Prichard, supervisor of the public school kindergartens and principal of a training school for kindergarten teachers. This report, given in 1902 to Dr. Edgar P. Hill, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, along with Caroline Ladd and her daughter Helen Ladd Corbett, described the deplorable co...

Portland Free Dispensary.

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The People’s Institute was organized in 1904 to improve living conditions for the women and children in the northern end of Portland. The impetus for the Institute was a report by Valentine Prichard, supervisor of the public school kindergartens and principal of a training school for kindergarten teachers. This report, given in 1902 to Dr. Edgar P. Hill, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, along with Caroline Ladd and her daughter Helen Ladd Corbett, described the deplorable co...

Mackenzie, Kenneth A. J., MD

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Tucker, Ernest F.

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Prichard, Valentine

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