The story of the east harlem nursing and health service, 1928-1941

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 988-996

  D'Antonio, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; ECONOMICS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY; HUMAN; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878085055     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301088     Document Type: Article

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35. Margaret Nourse to Raymond Fosdick and Thomas Appleget, January 15, 1941, RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series 235, Box 1, Folder 12.
36. Katherine Tucker to Grace Anderson, March 10, 1937, RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series 235, Box 2, Folder 16.
37. Memo by Appleget of visit of Folks, November 23, 1937, RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series 235, Box 1, Folder 10.
38. Karen Buhler Wilkerson, No Place Like Home: A History of Nursing and Home Care in the United States (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003), 170-179.
39. "The East Harlem Nursing and Health Service: Fifteen Years of Cooperative Endeavor: Should It Go On?," 1937, RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series 235, Box 2, Folder 16.
40. Marguerite Wales to Grace Anderson, March 19, 1937, RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series 235, Box 2, Folder 16. Other letters of support came from Lillian Hudson of Teachers' College (April 12, 1937, RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series 235, Box 2, Folder 16) and Amelia Grant, director of the Bureau of Nursing in the Department of Health (Grant to Anderson, May 10, 1937, RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series 235, Box 2, Folder 16).
41. Elizabeth Gordon Fox to Grace Anderson, April 1, 1937, RAC, RF, Record Group 1.1, Series 235, Box 2, Folder 16.
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