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San Jacinto Lung Association records

  • IC 034
  • Collection
  • 1911-1993

The San Jacinto Lung Association records include correspondence, legal documents, budgets, tuberculosis statistics, committee reports and minutes, printed materials, scrapbooks, articles, christmas seals, and photographs that document the history, community services, staff and administration of the San Jacinto Lung Association. Most notably, the collection highlights the organization’s public health programs to prevent and control tuberculosis as well as its Christmas Seal fundraising campaigns.

The materials are arranged in three series: Organization Records (1911-1993), Photographs (1895-1969), and Scrapbooks (1924-1974). The collection equals 13 cubic feet (12 document and oversize boxes).The materials are in fair condition. Some items were damaged or lost during the flood caused by Tropical Storm Allison in 2001.

San Jacinto Lung Association

Medical Social Workers

Activities while in Jefferson. Davis. Hospital basement. Miss Atkinson talks with a young patient. Rt. Mrs. Maurine Mitchell, second medical social worker at the TB clinic and the first at the Houston TB Hospital. Lf. The Third medical social worker at the TB Clinic, Miss Frances Clay. Young clinic patient being X-rayed by Mrs. Frances Brown. home visists were made by the nursing staff. educational work with student nurses, graduate nurses, and medical students at the clinic were carried on. Public education was not neglected. Seal Sale is always with us!

Medical Social Workers

a female patients' Blood Pressor is being taken; Activities while in Jefferson. Davis. Hospital basement. Miss Atkinson talks with a young patient. Rt. Mrs. Maurine Mitchell, second medical social worker at the TB clinic and the first at the Houston TB Hospital. Lf. The Third medical social worker at the TB Clinic, Miss Frances Clay. Young clinic patient being X-rayed by Mrs. Frances Brown. home visists were made by the nursing staff. educational work with student nurses, graduate nurses, and medical students at the clinic were carried on. Public education was not neglected. Seal Sale is always with us!

Board Member

Father Ralph J. Dieffenbach, Board Member, with TB Assn. Pionner nurses, Miss Emmeline J. Renis, Executive Director, Miss Armock, Miss Emmy Fisher, and Mrs. Leons deering.

Medical Students from Baylor litening to Lena Pecover give a lecture on the Tuberculosis Association.

Photograph presenting 1955 sophmore medical students from Baylor University, College of Medicine learning the work of the Tuberculosis Associations; How to protect themselves when in the hospitals; signing up for "Tb Abstract;" learning what to expect of public health nurses for tuberculossis patients. Intsructor: Miss Lena Pecover, RN; A. B.

May Poloc and W.F. Norman threading a movie projector

Photograph showing the early years, befor the Tuberculosis Association had its own movie projectors, the Visual Aid Department of Houston Public Schools cooperated with the Association in putting on health education programs via film at club and community gatherings. Here Miss May Pollock, Tuberculosis Association Nurse, and the School Visual Aids Director.

Bart Copeland

Photograph showing Bart Copeland who handled the Departement of Public Relation, which represents one of the most important phases of education for the general public as well as special groups.department. Houston,(Tex)

Anti-Tuberculosis League's Bagby Street Clinic.

Photograph showing the Anti-tuberculosis clinic at bagby street with a "No Parking , Clinic Zone " sign at the parking lot. TheAnti-Tuberculosis clinic at Bagy Street was hedged in by heavy traffic of the adjoining courthouse, hence the singns above "No Parking- Clinic Zone" The 6-foot high board fence the sheriff built alonside the clinic to keep the Tuberculosis germs from Hopping into the courthouse Square unfortunately does not show in this picture.

Anti-Tuberculosis League's Bagby Street Clinic.

Photograph showing the Anti-Tuberculosis League's Clinic. The Little Frame Bungalow at 608 Bagby on the Bayou for years housed the Tuberculosis and headquarters. Movement to build it started soon after the Tuberculosis Association was founded, Nov. 11, 1911, but court suits sought to prohibit it as a neighborhood nuisance. The Tuberculosis fight won in court and the building was dedicated Dec. 31, 1913. Additions were made to the building in later years.

Flooding at the Basement of the Jefferson Davis Hospital Building.

Photograph showing the workers moping the floor at the Basement of Jefferson Davis Hospital after the flooding cause by the heavy rain. There had been drought for a while . Then the rains came, and every time it rained much, the new hospital's basement would flood. Workers knew that if it rained heavily even on a weekend they were needed at the clinic for mopping up.

Flooding at the Basement of the Jefferson Davis Hospital Building.

Photograph showing the workers moping the floor at the Basement of Jefferson Davis Hospital after the flooding cause by the heavy rain. There had been drought for a while . Then the rains came, and every time it rained much, the new hospital's basement would flood. Workers knew that if it rained heavily even on a weekend they were needed at the clinic for mopping up.

Robert V. Moise Aubrey Calvin and Henry A. Stubee studying building plans

Photograph showing The Ant-Tuberculosis Association Leaders studying Building plans, as early as 1940, the leaders were beginning to consider more and more seriously need for better and ample quarters. In 1956, Presendient Robert V. Moise and Vice President and Building Chairman Aubrey Calvin, study building planswith Architect Henry A. Stubee.

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