John Sundwall Papers 1921-1944

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John Sundwall Papers 1921-1944

Public health physician and director of the Division of Hygiene, Public Health, and Physical Education at the University of Michigan, 1921-1941, papers include correspondence, administrative reports and studies, working files, minutes of meetings attended, manuscripts of writings, and photographs.

5 linear ft.

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6389815

Bentley Historical Library

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Sundwall family

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University of Michigan. Division of the Health Sciences.

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United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

Committee on the Cost of Medical Care

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Good Teeth Council for Children.

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University of Michigan. Division of Hygiene and Public Health

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Sundwall, Mary

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Presidents' Committee of Fifty on College Hygiene (U.S.)

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University of Michigan. School of Public Health

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See the history in the finding aid for the School of Public Health (University of Michigan) Records. From the guide to the School of Public Health (University of Michigan) publications, 1920-ongoing, (Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan) The School of Public Health at the University of Michigan officially dates from 1941, but the university had been a pioneer in public health education since 1887. In that year the State Board of Health suggested th...

University of Michigan. University Health Service.

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A campus health service was established in 1912, in response to requests by faculty and students for a student infirmary similar to those already in existence at several other American universities. The University Health Service officially opened its doors in 1913 in a converted residence on the current site of Burton Memorial Tower. The facility was staffed by two physicians (one male and one female), a nurse, and a clerk who responded to the health needs of over 5,500 students. In...

Sundwall, John, 1880-1950.

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Director of the Division of Hygiene and Public Health at University of Michigan. From the description of John Sundwall papers, 1921-1944. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423236 John Sundwall, public health physician and educator, was born June 12, 1880 in Fairview, Utah. He was educated at the University of Chicago (B.S., 1903 and Ph.D., 1906) and at Johns Hopkins University (M.D., 1912). He taught anatomy at the University of Chicago (1906-07) a...