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HEALTH
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Boxes 1
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5
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Correspondence,
memoranda, reports, news articles, lists, and many cross references. The classification includes many topics pertaining
to health, particularly health legislation; national and international
health problems; national and international health programs; physical
fitness; health organizations and committees, such as the White House
Conference on Health and the National Commission on Community Health
Services; health manpower needs; bill signings; blood donations; and
professional medical and dental groups and associations. There are many cross references to other file
classifications, especially to “Messages,” “Speeches,” and “Legislation.” In addition to the items mentioned above, the general file contains
a small amount of correspondence from the public about personal health
problems.
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HE/MC
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HEALTH/MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES
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Boxes 5
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6
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Memoranda,
correspondence, lists, press releases, summaries, notes, and draft remarks
pertaining to the White House Conference on Health, November 3-4, 1965. Memoranda about health meetings held in November
1967.
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HE 1
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DISEASES
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Boxes 6
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10
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Correspondence,
memoranda, publications, reports, and many cross references to statements
and to correspondence with groups associated with a particular disease. Subjects include immunization; cigarette labeling;
hiring the physically handicapped; research; and a variety of health
problems and diseases, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, polio,
alcoholism, handicaps, and deafness. In addition, the general file also contains correspondence from
the general public about personal health problems and public opinion
mail on drugs banned for interstate shipment.
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HE 1-1
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MENTAL DISORDERS
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Boxes 10
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13
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Correspondence,
memoranda, publications, reports, minutes, and press releases pertaining
to mental retardation and mental illness. The papers contain many memoranda titled “Mental Retardation
Progress Report.” These detail
the Department of Health Education and Welfare’s activities in the field
of mental retardation and include many publications as attachments. The progress reports are addressed to Mrs.
Sargent Shriver, Consultant to the President’s Panel on Mental Retardation,
or the Secretary of HEW. Many
of the documents pertain to associations, committees, commissions, and
panels on mental retardation and mental illness.
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HE 2
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FOOD – NUTRITION
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Box
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Correspondence,
a report, and memoranda pertaining to malnutrition, both in the United
States and abroad, diet, fortified foods, fish protein concentrate,
and the Food and Drug Administration. The file also contains cross references and a few documents relating
to the Child Nutrition Act, Food for Peace, and Food Stamps.
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HE 3
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HEALTH SERVICES
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14
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The
few original letters and memoranda in the executive file pertain to
health care facilities, services for the poor, and school health problems. “Executive HE 3” is almost entirely made up
of cross references to “Legislation” and other categories of “Health.” The correspondence and memoranda in the general
file pertain to public welfare agencies, physicians involved in volunteer
health services, and health care proposals.
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HE 3-1
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HEALTH OF THE AGED –
CHRONIC DISEASES
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Box
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Correspondence,
memoranda, and a statement on prolonging life, coronary care units,
research on aging, and Medicare.
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HE 3-2
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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
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Box
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Correspondence,
memoranda, and reports pertaining to the Federal employees occupational
health program, occupational health hazards, the Occupational Health
and Safety Act of 1968, proposals for occupational health and safety
programs to reduce job-related deaths and disability, labor standards
for hazardous occupations in agriculture, environmental health and the
Environmental Health Center.
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HE 4
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MEDICINES – DRUGS – SERUMS
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Boxes 14
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Correspondence
and memoranda pertaining to vaccines, narcotics, drug abuse, dangerous
drugs, drug legislation, the cost of medicine, the International Adverse
Drug Reaction Center, and the controversy surrounding drugs banned by
the Food and Drug Administration, such as “Krebiozen” and other “anti-cancer”
drugs; a report on controls over drugs and other property at the District
of Columbia General Hospital, May 22, 1964; and memoranda and press
releases pertaining to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961,
filed June 6, 1967.
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HE 4-1
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NARCOTICS
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Box
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Correspondence,
memoranda, clippings, statements, and reports pertaining to narcotic
traffic, drug addiction, treatment of addicts, discussions with the
Mexican government about drug traffic, the Bureau of Narcotics, the
Advisory Committee on Narcotics and Drug Abuse, and the Bureau of Drug
Abuse Control.
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HE 5
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HOSPITALS – MEDICAL CARE
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Correspondence,
memoranda, publications, and reports pertaining to hospitals, clinics,
nursing homes, and health units. Subjects
covered under the classification include Public Health Service hospitals,
hospitals in the
Washington
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D.C.
area, regional medical
programs, and modernization and enlargement of medical facilities.
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HE 6
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RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH
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Box
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Correspondence,
memoranda, and reports pertaining to hazardous radiation legislation,
protection from radiation and from fallout, radioactivity in food, research,
and radiation safety and health standards for Federal supply contracts.
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HE 7
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RESEARCH
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Correspondence,
memoranda, and reports relating to medical research particularly the
National Institutes of Health, research facilities procurement and treatment
of laboratory animals, and research undertaken in cooperation with foreign
nations.
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HE 7-1
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TECHNIQUES
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Box
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Correspondence
and cross references pertaining to procurement and treatment of laboratory
animals and to experimental techniques such as transplantation.
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HE 8
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SANITARY SERVICES
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Box
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Correspondence
and cross references pertaining to pollution and waste treatment and
disposal.
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HE 8-1
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AIR POLLUTION
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Boxes 22
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Correspondence,
memoranda, reports, press releases, and executive order drafts pertaining
to air pollution, including emission controls on cars; Executive Order
11282, filed May 27, 1966; legislation; and research in the field of
air pollution control.
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HE 8-2
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MILK – FOOD SANITATION
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Box
23
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Correspondence
and cross references to food distribution and to radioactivity in milk.
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HE 8-3
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SEWAGE SYSTEMS
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Boxes 23
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24
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Correspondence
and memoranda pertaining to financing and grant assistance for sewage
treatment plants and to disposal of sewage at Federal installations. In addition to these topics, the general file
contains correspondence from the public about local sewage problems.
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HE 8-4
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WATER POLLUTION – WATER
PURIFICATION – WATER SUPPLY
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Boxes 24
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Correspondence,
memoranda, press releases, reports, and executive order drafts pertaining
to water pollution control, including saline water, pollution created
by Federal installations, oil pollution, and fluoridation of water supplies.
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HE 9
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VITAL STATISTICS
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Box
26
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Correspondence
and memoranda on statistics pertaining to births, deaths, and incident
of disease.
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