Boston Public Health Commission Board records, 1865-2007 1968-2007.

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Boston Public Health Commission. Board. Boston Public Health Commission Board records, 1865-2007 1968-2007.

Boston Public Health Commission Board records, 1865-2007 1968-2007.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/605876006

Collection documents the history of the Boston Public Health Commission, which was formed in 1996 as a result of the merger between the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals and Boston University Medical Center. The consolidation of these two institutions also created the Boston Medical Center, which subsumed the former Boston City Hospital. In addition, the histories of the Department of Health and Boston City Hospital from 1865 to 1965 (with gaps), the history of the Department of Health and Hospitals from 1965-1996, and the restructuring of Boston City Hospital and Boston Specialty and Rehabilitation Hospital (Mattapan Chronic Disease Hospital) from the 1970s to 1996. This collection also records the community activism of Boston city residents, including those in the South End and Mattapan, regarding hospital closings, building facilities producing hazardous materials, and city-wide restaurant and work place smoking regulations. Topics such as racial disparities in public health, community health centers, HIV/AIDS, women's health services, program development, and health care reform are also documented. Records include board, trustee, and committee meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, budgets, financial statements, agreements, public hearing transcripts, newspaper clippings, press releases, photographs, audio cassettes, statistics, agendas, bylaws, memoranda, meeting notes, personal manuals, and brochures. Includes minute books of the predecessor boards and departments including Trustees of Boston City Hospital, Board of Health, Health Commissioner, Trustees of Health and Hospitals, Dept. of Health and Hospitals, as well as the Public Health Commission (Commissioners of Health); annual reports of predecessor boards and departments including trustees of Boston City Hospital, Board of Health, and Dept. of Health and Hospitals, as well as publications on health units and health statistics; annual reports can also be found in the documents published by the Boston City Council; administrative records including correspondence, subject files, committee records, and budgets; Board of Directors meeting packets which include minutes and supporting documents for the Department of Health and Hospitals and the Boston Public Health Commission for the years 1977-1985 and 1991-2007; and audio-visual material removed from series 3.

25 cubic ft.

City of Boston Archives & Records Management Division