Papers of Harold Coe Stuart, 1944-1956 (bulk).

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Papers of Harold Coe Stuart, 1944-1956 (bulk).

Contains correspondence, minutes of staff meetings, reports and proposal pertaining to the Child Health Division of the Children's Medical Center, covering also its establishment; proposals for a preventive health unit and nursery school, and general correspondence with the Children's Hospital; correspondence about special institutes and conferences held on child growth and development; also correspondence concerning the Department of Maternal and Child Health at Harvard School of Public Health. In addition includes correspondence and related information about the Children's Bureau Study, a manuscript of Stuart's book The Healthy Child, and letters belonging to Ethel C. Dunham and Barnet E. Bonar.

2 boxes and 1 packet.

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Children's Medical Center (Boston, Mass.). Child Health Division.

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Stuart, Harold Coe, 1891-1976.

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Harvard Medical School. Dept. of Pediatrics.

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Dunham, Ethel C. (Ethel Collins), 1883-

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Dunham, premature infant specialist and child advocate, was instrumental in establishing national (US) standards for the care of newborns. Dunham graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1918, and completed an internship in pediatrics under Dr. John Howland in 1920. Dunham then was appointed instructor at Yale Medical School in 1920, was promoted to assistant and then associate clinical professor in 1927. During this time, Dunham became a consultant to the United States Children's ...

Harvard School of Public Health. Dept. of Maternal and Child Health.

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Stuart, Harold C. (Harold Coe), 1891-

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Stuart (Columbia, M.D. 1918) taught pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, 1921- ; was also physician and chief of the Child Health Division at Children's Medical Center from 1946 to 1953; and a physician and consulting physician until his retirement in 1958. In addition he established the first Department of Maternal and Child Health in any school of public health. Stuart was noted for his 27-year study of the growth and development of 134 children from the fetal period to their 18th year. ...

Bonar, Barnet E., 1921-

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