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Descriptive Summary
Biographical Note
Collection Summary
Index Terms
Administrative Information
Restrictions
Series Descriptions
Correspondence and Subject Files,
1943-1971
Legislation
Civil Defense Pamphlets
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine
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| Collection Number: | MS C 278 |
| Creator: | Dearing, Warren Palmer, 1905 -
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| Title: | Warren Palmer Dearing Papers
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| Dates: | 1943-1971 |
| Quantity: | 17 Ms boxes |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, documents, reports, and
printed matter. Papers on a variety of subjects relating to public health, health education, medical administration, federal health legislation, and civil defense. |
Dr. Ward Dearing was born in Iowa in 1905 and raised in Omak,
Washington. He received his BA with high honors from the State College of Washington in 1927, and received his M.D. cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1931. For the next three years, he served on the faculty of the Department of Preventive Medicine and the School of Public Health as Assistant in Epidemiology. In 1934, he joined the Public Health Service, including nine years as Deputy Surgeon General. He was also appointed Chief of the U.S. delegation to the 14th Pan American Sanitary Congress (1954), served as U.S. representative to the NATO Medical Committee, and named by President Lyndon Johnson to the Consumer Advisory Council (1965).
After leaving goverment service in 1961, he became a consultant to the Group Health Association. He retired in 1971 as the GHA's Executive Director.
Brief Chronology
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| 1934-1941 | Hospital Service and epidemiological studies on poliomyelitis and tuberculosis |
| 1941-1944 | Asst. and later Chief Medical Officer, Office of Civilian Defense; repsonsible for establishing a system of medical care for civilians
injured or otherwise in need through enemy action |
| 1944-1945 | Chief, Health Personnel, U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, Mediterranean theater |
| 1945-1946 | Asst. Chief, Division of Public Health Methods; staff work on medical care studies and legislation, including President Truman's first social security health proposals |
| 1946-1948 | Chief, Division of Commissioned Officers, Public Health Service |
| 1948-1957 | Deputy Surgeon General with major activities in medical education, medical care planning and administration |
| 1957-1961 | Director of Health Services, Office of Civil and Defense Modilization; responsible for health manpower and other planning for limited or full military mobilization |
Other affiliations
| Member, Founders Group of the American Board of Preventive Medicine |
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| Fellow, American Public Health Association |
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| Former member, House of Delegates, American Medical Association |
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| Member, Subcommittee on Medical Care, American Public Health
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| Member, American Society for Public Administration |
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| Former member, Board of Directors, National Society for the
Prevention of Blindness |
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Correspondence, documents, reports, and printed matter. Papers on a variety of subjects relating to public health, health education, medical administration, federal health legislation, and civil defense.
Includes correspondence from Dean A. Clark, James M. Mackintosh, and David D. Rutstein.
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Restrictions
Restrictions
Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for
information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/contacts/custserv-email.html.
Copyright
Copyright to the collection was transferred to the public domain. Contact the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/contacts/custserv-email.html.
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| MeSH Subjects |
| | Education,
Medical |
| | Legislation |
| | Public Health |
| Personal Names |
| | Clark, Dean Alexander, 1905- |
| | MacKintosh, James Macalister,
1891- |
| | Rutstein, David D. (David Davis),
1909- |
| Corporate Names |
| | Group Health Association |
| | United States. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare |
| | United States. Surgeon-General's Office |
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Dearing, Warren Palmer. Warren Palmer Dearing papers. 1943-1971. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.; MS C 278.
Acquired from W. Palmer Dearing, 1973.
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Correspondence and Subject Files, 1943-1971
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| 1 | | Alabama Conference of Social Work, 1950 |
| 1 | | Alabama Hospital Association, 1957 |
| 1 | | Association of American Medical Colleges meetings, 1951 |
| 1 | | Association of American Medical Colleges (63rd Annual meeting), 1952 |
| 1 | | American Association of Medical Records Librarians, 1952 |
| 1 | | American Association of Public Health Physicians, 1953-1956 |
| 1 | | American College of Dentists, 1950 |
| 1 | | American Federation of Labor, 1949 |
| 1 | | American Hospital Association, 1961-1963 |
| 1 | | American Medical Association, 1945-1949 |
| | American Medical Association, 1949-1951 |
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| 1 | | | Joint Committee on Medical Education, 1950-1951 |
| 1 | | | Section on Preventive - Industrial Medicine, 1949 |
| 1 | | | Subcommittee on Curriculum, 1950-1951 |
| 1 | | American Public Health Association, 1950-1957 |
| 1 | | American Public Health Association Committee, 1950l-1951 |
| 2 | | American Public Health Association Conference on Evaluation in Public Health, 1960 |
| 2 | | American Public Health Association Subcommittee on Medical Care, 1952-1955 |
| 2 | | American Society of Public Administration, 1968-1969 |
| 2 | | American Veterinary Medicine Association, 1949 |
| 2 | | Appointment letters with Office of Defense Mobilization, 1957-1958 |
| 2 | | Argentina - Survey of Health Facilities, 1956 |
| 2 | | Arsenic, 1936 |
| 2 | | Association of Military Surgeons, 1950-1958 |
| 2 | | British White Paper |
| 3 | | California, University of, 1952 |
| 3 | | Canadian Public Health Association, 1952 |
| 3 | | Chest florography |
| 3 | | Chicago Civil Defense Organization, 1950 |
| 3 | | Children's Bureau, 1946 |
| 3 | | Chile, 1954 |
| 3 | | Correspondence, memoranda, 1948-1950 (Chronological file) |
| 4 | | Correspondence, memoranda, 1950-1953 (Chronological file) |
| 5 | | Correspondence, memoranda (Chronological File), 1954-1957 |
| 5 | | Civil Defense, 1955-1956 |
| 5 | | Civil Defense planning, 1950 |
| 5 | | Clark, Dr. Dean A., 1945-1957 |
| 5 | | Clay County Medical Society, 1954 |
| 6 | | Commissioned Officers Association, 1952-1953 |
| 6 | | Committees (Interdepartmental), 1950-1955 |
| 6 | | Community Health Association, 1957 |
| 6 | | Congratulatory letters, 1943-1948 |
| 6 | | Congress on Medical Education and Licensure, 1956 |
| 6 | | Consumer Advisory Council Report, |
| 6 | | Consumer Advisory Council Report (Press Releases) |
| 6 | | Cooperative Health Federation of American, 1949 |
| 6 | | Cutler, Robert, 1957 |
| 6 | | Dalen, Junice, 1946 |
| 7 | | Daley, Sir Allen |
| 7 | | Department of Defense, 1948 |
| 7 | | Department of Defense - Army (Chemical Corps), 1950 |
| 7 | | Emge, L.A., 1944-1945 |
| 7 | | Emory University, 1953 |
| 7 | | European report, 1949 |
| 7 | | Foreign plans
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| 7 | | Gill Memorial Hospital, 1949 |
| 7 | | Goldmann, Dr. Franz |
| 7 | | Grange (Potomac), 1945 |
| 7 | | Group Health Association of America |
| 7 | | Group Practice Studies, 1945-1946 |
| 7 | | Health conferences, 1945 |
| | Health, Education and Welfare
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| 7 | | | Secretary's Committee background |
| 7 | | | Secretary's Committee correspondence |
| 7 | | | Secretary's Committee on Environmental Health, 1965 |
| 8 | | | Secretary's Committee on Environmental Health |
| 8 | | | Secretary's Committee on Food and Drug |
| 8 | | | Secretary's Committee on Health Activities, 1965-1966 |
| 8 | | | Secretary's Committee on Health Services |
| 8 | | | Secretary's Committee on Hospitals |
| 8 | | | Secretary's Committee on Minutes and Agendas |
| 8 | | | Secretary's Committee on Organizational Material and Patterns |
| 8 | | | Secretary's Committee on Personnel Organization |
| 8 | | | Secretary's Committee, Stewart |
| 8 | | Health Program Workshop |
| 8 | | Hitchcock Memorial Hospital |
| 8 | | Home Economics Association, 1944 |
| 8 | | Hoover Commission, 1948 |
| 9 | | Hoover Commission, 1948 |
| 9 | | Jackson, Dr. Fred, 1952-1956 |
| 9 | | Joint Committee on Medical Education in Time of
Emergency, 1950 |
| 9 | | Labor, 1945 |
| 9 | | Labor Health Institute, 1956 |
| | Legislation, 1944-1947 |
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| 9 | | | Health Insurance Act of 1945, 1945 |
| 9 | | | Military Government - Civil Affairs Public Health Society |
| 9 | | | National Health Act |
| 9 | | | National Health Insurance, 1947 |
| 9 | | | Pepper Committee |
| 9 | | | Peters Committee |
| 10 | | | Wagner Bill, 1944-1945 |
| 10 | | Mackintosh, Dr. James, 1949-1957 |
| 10 | | Macy, Josiah Jr., Foundation, 1953 |
| 10 | | Magnuson's Commission, 1952 |
| 10 | | Massachusetts General Hospital, 1951 |
| 10 | | Medical Administration Service |
| 10 | | Medical Care Institute |
| 10 | | Medical Care (Rural) |
| 10 | | Medical Education Aid, 1949 |
| 11 | | Medical Field Service School, 1953 |
| 11 | | Medical School Deans, 1949 |
| 11 | | Medical Service Plans across the country, 1945-1946 |
| 11 | | Menninger Foundation, 1950 |
| 11 | | Milbank Memorial Fund, 1951-1953 |
| 11 | | Miller, Benjamin |
| 11 | | Mock Hearing |
| 11 | | National Conference of Social Work, 1950 |
| 11 | | National Information Bureau, 1968 |
| 11 | | National Naval Medical Center, 1950 |
| 11 | | National Research Council, 1944-1948 |
| 11 | | National Research Council, 1944-1948 |
| 11 | | National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, 1955 |
| 11 | | Negro Education |
| 11 | | New England Health Institute, 1955 |
| 11 | | New England Hospital Assembly, 1953 |
| 11 | | New Jersey State Dental Society, 1950 |
| 11 | | New York State Health Officers, 1949 |
| 11 | | North Carolina, University of |
| 11 | | Office of Civil Defense Mobilization |
| 11 | | Office of Defense Mobilization - (Delegation) |
| 11 | | Office of Defense Mobilization - (Health Resources Advisory Committee) |
| 12 | | Office of Defense Mobilization - (Interagency Health Advisory Board) |
| 12 | | Office of Emergency Planning, 1966-1969 |
| 12 | | Operation Alert, 1955 |
| 12 | | Pan-American Sanitary Assembly, 1954 |
| 12 | | Pan-Pacific Surgical Association, 1948 |
| 12 | | Parran, Dr. Thomas |
| 12 | | Physicians Redistribution |
| 12 | | Polio |
| 12 | | Poliomyelitis Report |
| 12 | | President's message, 1944-1947 |
| 12 | | Preventive Medicine Conference, 1952 |
| 12 | | Pritchard, E.G. |
| 12 | | Public Assistance (Bureau of), 1950 |
| 12 | | Public Health Reports (Board of Editors), |
| 12 | | Public Health Service Confidential Task Force, 1948 |
| 13 | | Public Health Service Confidential Task Force, 1948 |
| 13 | | Public Health Schools (Proceedings), 1949 |
| 13 | | Reed Plans |
| 13 | | Reekie, Dr. Dudley A. |
| 13 | | Regional Engineers, 1953 |
| 13 | | Retirement (Dearing), 1961 |
| 13 | | Roemer, Milton I. |
| 13 | | Rutstein, David D., 1947-1971 |
| 13 | | South Carolina Medical College, 1950 |
| 13 | | Southworth, Hamilton, 1943-1944 |
| 13 | | Stamler, Lega Aid Fund, 1965-1970 |
| 13 | | State Sanitary Engineers, 1952 |
| 13 | | Tuberculin and X-ray Survey, |
| 13 | | Tuberculosis |
| 13 | | United Medical Administration, 1950 |
| 13 | | UNRRA and Red China |
| 13 | | UNRRA - Staff Society, 1945 |
| 13 | | Vassar - Address, 1945 |
| 14 | | Veterans Pensions |
| 14 | | War Sessions, 1943 |
| 14 | | Washington, D.C. (Survey of Medical Care) |
| 14 | | Washington Seminar, 1956 |
| 14 | | Welfare Administration (Children's Bureau) |
| 14 | | Western Conference of Prepaid Medical Service Plans, 1956 |
| 14 | | World Medical Association, 1953 |
| 14 | | Miscellaneous material |
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Legislation
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| 14 | | Appropriations |
| 14 | | Public Health Service Act and Amdendements |
| 14 | | Personnel Commissioned Corps |
| 14 | | Dependents Medicare |
| 14 | | Narcotic Control |
| 14 | | World Health Assembly |
| 14 | | Health Research Facilities Act |
| 14 | | Survivor Benefits |
| 14 | | National Library of Medicine |
| 14 | | Personnel Civil Service |
| 14 | | Public Health Service - General |
| 14 | | Water Polution Control Act |
| 14 | | Health Survey |
| 14 | | D.C. Narcotics |
| 14 | | Alaska - Mental Health |
| 14 | | Training - Professional public health personnel |
| 14 | | Housing Act, 1956 |
| 14 | | Department of Defense |
| 14 | | Veterans Administration |
| 14 | | State Department |
| 14 | | General |
| 14 | | UNRRA pamphlets |
| 14 | | National Health Act, 1945 |
| 14 | | Medical Care Insurance |
| 14 | | Public Health Service Personnel Systems |
| 14 | | National Academy of Sciences (Symposium), 1967 |
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Civil Defense Pamphlets
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| 15 | | Civil Defense Pamphlets, 1940s |
| 15 | | UNRRA pamphlets |
| 16 | | Civil Defense pamphlets, 1940s-1950s |
| 17 | | Civil Defense pamphlets, 1950s |
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