These records (1907-1994) of the Montana State Board of Health and its sucessor the Board of Health and Environmental Sciences consist of minutes (1907-1994); reports (1925-1964) from the Missoula City-County Health Department and from state health officers concerning typhoid fever in Warland, Stevensville, Helena, Thurlow, and Libby; liscensing laws for hospitals, state public health plans; and industrial hygiene of the Zonolite Company of Libby. Also included are materials removed from a scrapbook on the history and activities of the Montana Health Planning Committee from 1946 to 1950. The Food and Drug Division subgroup includes general and interoffice correspondence, court papers, press releases, field investigation and other reports, speeches, subject files, and miscellany. [Photographs and printed material transferred to Photograph Archives and Library respectively]. This collection consists of minutes (1907-1994); reports submitted to the State Board of Health from the Missoula City-County Health Department (1920, 1922, 1962-1964), from state health officers concerning typhoid fever in Warland, Stevensville, Helena, Thurlow, and Libby (1925-1929), on industrial hygiene of the Zonolite Company of Libby (1956), and Montana Public Health plans (1955-1959); and materials removed from a scrapbook (1946-1950) on the history and activities of the Montana Health Planning Committee. The Food and Drug Division subgroup (1919-1970) consists of general and interoffice correspondence; court papers; press releases; reports, including field investigation reports, biannual and biennial reports to the State Board of Health, and others; speeches; subject files; and miscellany. [Photographs and printed materials were separated from the collection and transferred to the Photograph Archives and the Library respectively; lists of items separated are included in the collection.].
