Public Health
Organization
Found in 158 Collections and/or Records:
Public Health - Mental Health - Crossroads: Georgia's Mental Health Program (Publication)
Series
Identifier: 026-24-053
Scope and Contents
This quarterly newsletter was published "to keep you up to date with mental health planning in Georgia. " It began publication in May, 1964, and was printed until April 1971. It included items of general interest relating to activities of the Division of Mental Health, particularly announcements of staff and personnel changes, discussions of programs instituted or proposed, calendars of coming events and reports of progress in carrying out the functions of the Division. The issues vary from...
Dates:
Created: 1964-1971
Public Health - Mental Health - Director's Administrative Records
Series
Identifier: 026-24-035
Scope and Contents
The Division of Mental Health was created, administratively, with the establishment of the Georgia Training School for Mental Defectives at Gracewood in 1919. At that time, and for the next four decades, its major duties were to administer this institution and the Central State Hospital at Milledgeville. Beginning in the 1950's, the Division greatly expanded its activities into each of the counties with the creation of the Community Mental Health Service. This program involved more...
Dates:
Created: 1950-1973
Public Health - Mental Health - Publications
Series
Identifier: 026-24-098
Dates:
Created: 1958-1969
Public Health - Mental Health - the New Life (Publication)
Series
Identifier: 026-24-100
Scope and Contents
See Record Group 72-1-3 for previous issues of this publication. This publication is a newsletter dealing with alcohol and drug abuse. It is published quarterly by the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Service.
Dates:
Created: 1963-1964
Public Health - Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital - Battey State Hospital Annual Reports
Series
Identifier: 026-09-119
Scope and Contents
The Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital was created by the Act of August 17, 1908 for the purpose of housing and curing patients having tuberculosis. The act also created a Board of Trustees to manage the hospital and authorized the governor to appoint members of the Board. The Act of August 17, 1918 abolished the board and transferred the hospital to the State Board of Health, where it remained, except for the period 1931-1937, until 1972, when it was transferred to the Department of Human...
Dates:
Created: 1955-1969
Public Health - Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital - Budgets, Meetings, Legislation
Series
Identifier: 026-09-161
Dates:
Created: 1903-1956
Public Health - Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital - Director's Subject Files
Series
Identifier: 026-09-074
Scope and Contents
This series contains (1) correspondence from official and private sources and the superintendent's responses thereto, (2) memorandums and other statements documenting policies and decisions not necessarily in the official minutes or other publications, (3) papers related to the therapeutic, clinical training and research interests of the institution, (4) papers reflecting the superintendent's actions on medical, administrative or personnel services, (5) documents reflecting manpower and...
Dates:
Created: 1942-1972
Public Health - Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital - the Battian (Publication)
Series
Identifier: 026-09-114
Scope and Contents
This is the newspaper published largely for the staff members and patients of the hospital.
Dates:
Created: 1953-1954
Public Health - Office of Aging - Titles III and VII Program Files
Series
Identifier: 026-47-154
Dates:
Created: 1967-1973
Public Health - Office of Local Health - Misc. Records
Series
Identifier: 026-44-150
Dates:
Created: 1941-1963
Public Health - Office of Nursing - Publication Record Set Files
Series
Identifier: 026-39-128
Scope and Contents
This series consists of bound, generally published, records produced by the Office of Nursing Services. Included are (1) published booklets on the nursing profession in Georgia, (2) interdepartmental study guides for nursing students, (3) reports from other agencies as well as county and community projects, (4) preliminary drafts, (5) reprints from medical journals, (6) speeches, (7) photographs showing community nurses at work, (8) surveys, (9) training manuals for practicing nurses, (10)...
Dates:
Created: 1920-1970
Public Health - Personnel - Decade Club
Series
Identifier: 026-03-083
Scope and Contents
This series includes the minutes of the annual meetings of the Decade Club and also correspondence extending invitations to join the club, notices of meetings, banquet programs, the copy for a manual for the officers, lists of members, copies of the constitution and by laws, a short history of the club, lists of employees eligible for service pins and tributes to recipients of same. The Decade Club was a professional and social club for employees of the Georgia Department of Public Health...
Dates:
Created: 1940-1968
Public Health - Personnel - Hand-Drawn Checks and Payroll Lists
Series
Identifier: 026-03-168
Dates:
Created: 1966-1968
Public Health - Personnel - State Employees and Officials
Series
Identifier: 026-03-139
Dates:
Created: 1940-1940
Public Health - Personnel - Worker's Compensation Claims Paid Files
Series
Identifier: 026-03-169
Dates:
Created: 1968
Public Health - Physical Health - Health Program Project Files
Series
Identifier: 026-16-065
Scope and Contents
This series contains documents relating to the coordination and evaluation of the Division's programs designed to insure proper development of new health programs, the improvement and modification of existing programs, and a comprehensive plan for program changes. Included are: (1) program narratives describing the need for the program or its modification, problem areas, problem goals, implementation mechanism, services to be provided and progress evaluation; (2) material concerning the...
Dates:
Created: 1956-1973
Public Health - Physical Health - Physicians' Reports
Series
Identifier: 026-16-032
Scope and Contents
Each Physicians' Report contains: (1) graphs of selected diseases of low incidence for each month compared with the same month in the previous year (2) monthly statistics on Mental Health in all state facilities for the reported month and (3) short reports on various diseases, viruses and special treatments. These reports are published monthly by the Georgia Department of Public Health.
Dates:
Created: 1971-1972
Public Health - Planning Officer - General Administrative Records
Series
Identifier: 026-20-044
Scope and Contents
The Planning Officer of the Department of Public Health is responsible for delegated administrative functions which includes duties as an executive assistant to the State Director. The General Administrative Records of the Planning Officer consists of budgets, departmental correspondence, circular memorandums, reports, studies, tables, program descriptions and recommendations, applications for research and training grants, and a quantity of miscellaneous material related to the department's...
Dates:
Created: 1959-1971
Public Health - Preventable Diseases Branch - Director's General Correspondence
Series
Identifier: 026-04-021
Scope and Contents
This series includes correspondence, memoranda, reports and other records of a general administrative nature of the Director of the Preventable Diseases Branch. The records from 1945 through 1963 are particularly the files of Dr. Lester M. Petrie and reflect his work as Director probably as much as they reflect the work of the Preventable Diseases Branch. Dr. Petrie served as Director of the Industrial Hygiene Service from 1941 to 1952 before becoming Director of Preventable Diseases...
Dates:
Created: 1945-1963
Public Health - Public Information - Analytical Chemistry (Publication)
Series
Identifier: 026-31-166
Dates:
Created: 1948-1965
Public Health - Public Information - Child Health Unit Reference Publications
Series
Identifier: 026-31-180
Scope and Contents
This series contains miscellaneous folders, pamphlets, booklets, guides, reports, studies and flyers published by the Department of Public Health and used by the Child Health Unit in the normal course of its work. These publications were printed over a period of several years and were apparently retained in the files of the Child Health Unit until no longer needed for reference. This collection is not to be taken as a reference set of all publications produced by the Department during the...
Dates:
Created: 1943-1974
Public Health - Public Information - Fax (Facts: People) (Publication)
Series
Identifier: 026-31-058
Scope and Contents
This monthly publication which served as the newsletter for Departmental personnel has born three different titles during its existence. From the month of the first issue, Feb. 1952 through Oct. 1968 the title was spelled Fax. From Nov. 1968 through April 1972 the title was changed to Facts. For the remainder of 1972 the title was changed to About People. Despite these name changes, the content remained virtually the same. Representative articles included items on: (1) members of the Board...
Dates:
Created: 1952-1972
Public Health - Public Information - From the Nurses' Case Files (Publication)
Series
Identifier: 026-31-115
Scope and Contents
This is a news release type of publication send to the public newspapers in the state. They give an account of the activities of a public health nurse and the various types of cases a typical public health nurse deals with. The news releases are undated.
Dates:
Other: no date
Public Health - Public Information - Georgia's Health (Publication)
Series
Identifier: 026-31-060
Scope and Contents
This publication served as the Department's newsletter and was distributed free of charge to the general public by the information office as a health education service. From its advent in the early 1920's to its cessation of publication in October 1972, Georgia's Health reflected very well the growth of the Department and its expansion into an ever increasing number of varied fields of endeavor. In the earlier years it concentrated on disease eradication, public education in health and...
Dates:
Created: 1927-1972
Public Health - Public Information - News Releases
Series
Identifier: 026-31-113
Dates:
Created: 1968-1972
Public Health - Public Information - the Analyst (Publication)
Series
Identifier: 026-31-016
Dates:
Created: 1948-1965
Public Health - Radiation Control Council - Minutes
Series
Identifier: 026-36-092
Scope and Contents
This series contains a complete set of the summary minutes of the called meetings of the Radiation Control Council and related correspondence. Among the subjects discussed in the minutes which reflect the chief mission of the Council are (1) setting radiation decontamination standards, (2) registration of x-ray machines in use in Georgia, (3) registration of and setting standards for users of radium, (4) providing liaison between the Atomic Energy Commission and the Georgia Department of...
Dates:
Created: 1964-1967
Public Health - Research and Statistical Section - Monthly Statistical Reports
Series
Identifier: 026-43-136
Dates:
Created: 1937-1955
Public Health - Sanitary Engineer - Environmental Engineering Map Files
Series
Identifier: 026-41-132
Dates:
Created: 1935-1946
Public Health - School Health - Annual Reports
Series
Identifier: 026-28-111
Scope and Contents
The Division of School Health is part of Health Conservation Services and was organizationally in existence by 1951 and remained so until about the mid-1960’s. The function of the division was to cooperate with the State Department of Education to promote the health of school children from the ages of 6 to 21. These annual reports give an accounting of the various programs in which the division was engaged including vision, hearing and nutrition screening, environmental health, community...
Dates:
Created: 1953
Public Health - Southwestern State Hospital - Annual Reports
Series
Identifier: 026-15-090
Scope and Contents
This series contains the annual reports of the Southwestern State Hospital in Thomasville and its affiliate, Bainbridge State Hospital. A typical issue might contain short narrative reports from the following divisions: (1) Personnel Office (2) Community Relations Office (3) Nursing Service and Education (4) Pharmacy (5) Clinics (6) Medical Records (7) Rose Haven (the division for the mentally retarded) (8) Chaplaincy Services (9) Industrial Therapy (10) Music Therapy (11) Psychological...
Dates:
Created: 1970-1971
Public Health - Southwestern State Hospital - Committee Minutes
Series
Identifier: 026-15-079
Scope and Contents
This series contains the minutes of various staff committees of the Southwestern State Hospital in Thomasville, Georgia. Some of the committees met monthly and others less frequently. In most cases, the minutes include a list of those members present at each meeting and a concise summary of the actions taken. Discussions or debates are never included verbatim. The committee names in the list below indicate the varied interests and activities to which the Southwestern State Hospital staff...
Dates:
Created: 1968-1972
Public Health - Southwestern State Hospital - Re-Hab-Bit (Publication)
Series
Identifier: 026-15-091
Scope and Contents
This series contains the staff newslettter published by and for the personnel and patients of the Southwestern State Hospital in Thomasville and its affiliate, Bainbridge State Hospital. A typical single-page issue might contain (1) news concerning new hospital programs, (2) announcements of committee and other group meetings, (3) reminders to department heads of reports due, (4) reminders to all staff members to get chest x-rays and (5) a cartoon. The publication dates of this newsletter...
Dates:
Created: 1970-1971
Public Health - State Board of Public Health - 1876 Mortality Report and 1933 Morbidity Report
Series
Identifier: 026-01-002
Dates:
Created: 1876-1933
Public Health - State Board of Public Health - Annual and Biennial Reports
Series
Identifier: 026-01-001
Scope and Contents
These published reports, varying in title and time span covered, are presented in prose and statistical form. There have been significant changes in the format over the years primarily manifested in an increased use of photographs and statistical data as the years progressed. The scope of the reports, too, has widened with the increase in the size and fields of interest of the Department. The earlier volumes contain financial reports, but contain no tables of contents or other findings aids...
Dates:
Created: 1904-1972
Public Health - State Board of Public Health - Board Rules and Regulations
Series
Identifier: 026-01-172
Dates:
Created: 1925-1958
Public Health - State Board of Public Health - County-Wide Malaria Survey Records
Series
Identifier: 026-01-140
Dates:
Created: 1937-1945
Public Health - State Board of Public Health - Hearings Files
Series
Identifier: 026-01-158
Dates:
Created: 1957-1973
Public Health - State Board of Public Health - House and Senate Bills
Series
Identifier: 026-01-157
Dates:
Created: 1933-1959
Public Health - State Board of Public Health - Minutes and Supporting Papers
Series
Identifier: 026-01-033
Scope and Contents
This series contains the official minutes of the Georgia State Board of Health, some minutes of committees created by the Board and containing many members in common and the supporting papers attached to the minutes. Most of the minutes are signed by the secretary of president of the Board. Those created in the earlier part of the century are brief and usually have few if any supporting papers attached. Beginning in the late 1940's, however, the minutes usually have more supporting papers....
Dates:
Created: 1903-1972
Public Health - State Board of Public Health - News Releases
Series
Identifier: 026-01-116
Scope and Contents
These news releases cover many subjects considered by the Board which are too numerous to list. The dates of such news releases are listed below. In some years many are missing. Researchers may consult Record Group 26-31-113 for the Georgia Department of Public Health news releases. Some years have many missing releases.
Dates:
Created: 1969-1972
Public Health - Vital Records - Local Vital Records Registrars Appointments
Series
Identifier: 026-05-005
Dates:
Created: 1919-1951
Public Health - Vital Records - Publication Record Set Files
Series
Identifier: 026-05-023
Scope and Contents
This series consists of publications, produced by the Vital Records and Health Statistics Unit (formerly Vital Statistics Division) of the Georgia Department of Public Health (now a division of the Georgia Department of Human Resources), which cover the following topics: (1) statistical tabulations showing frequency of death by various causes in Georgia; (2) statistical tabulations of morbidity (reported incidence of preventable diseases); (3) statistical tabulations concerning the health...
Dates:
Created: 1954-1965
Public Health - Vital Records - Vital Statistics Forms
Series
Identifier: 026-05-093
Scope and Contents
This series contains a collection of forms employed by county officials to report to the original Georgia Department of Public Health births, marriages and deaths occurring in their respective counties during the years 1875 and 1876. This program, far ahead of its time, only existed for two years and then was abolished until the 1930's. Although statewide in scope, only the few forms listed in the shelf list below survive. Three forms were apparently utilized. Form A is a letter size sheet...
Dates:
Created: 1875-1876
Public Health - Water Quality Control Board - Annual Reports
Series
Identifier: 026-07-007
Scope and Contents
These published annual reports are similar to those of other State departments and boards. A prose format is utilized, but in the later years many statistical graphs and pictures are included. A typical report is divided into the following sections: (1) Water Quality Surveillance Studies and Related Activities; (2) Municipal and Domestic Water Pollution Control; (3) Industrial Waste; (4) Financial Aid for Cities and Counties; (5) List of Operating Permits Issued for Year; (6) List of...
Dates:
Created: 1965-1971
Public Health - Water Quality Control Board - Commission Files
Series
Identifier: 026-07-010
Dates:
Created: 1960
Public Health - Water Quality Control Board - Georgia Water Quality Council Meeting Transcriptions
Series
Identifier: 026-07-009
Scope and Contents
This series contains the original transcriptions of tape recordings of the meetings of the Georgia Water Quality Council. Dates have not been ascertained from the transcriptions.
Dates:
Other: 1959 - 1963
Public Health - Water Quality Control Board - Georgia Water Quality Council Minutes
Series
Identifier: 026-07-008
Scope and Contents
This series contains the minutes and related documents of the quarterly Board Meetings of the Georgia Water Quality Council. The minutes are generally concerned with reports on various pollution problems and the steps being taken to resolve those problems. The related documents include press releases and memoranda announcing meetings, agendas, correspondence and reports to the Council.
Dates:
Created: 1957-1964