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King County Archives
Seattle-King County Department of Public Health

RECORD GROUP 112
SERIES 445
Director's history files, 1909-1982

Box ID Folder # Title BegDate EndDate
Box 1 1 Guidelines for county, city or town in a health district in estimating its equitable share of the expense of maintaining and operating the health district
2 Men and doctors - clippings 5/6/1909 5/6/1909
3 City Health Department at work - pictorial [1940 articles found in files in 1969] 11/3/1940 11/3/1940
4 State of Washington: Laws pertaining to public health, revised Oct. 1, 1941 10/1/1941 10/1/1941
5 Seattle Department of Health and Sanitation: Fifty-four Years of Health and Sanitation (1890-1944) [History of Seattle-King County Health Department, edited by Ragnar T. Westman, 1943] 1/1/1943 12/31/1944
6 The new charter of the City of Seattle [Article IX: Public Health Department] 3/1/1945 3/1/1945
7 Merger of County-City Health Programs 6/21/1947 6/21/1947
8 It Works in Seattle - Merged Official and Voluntary Public Health Nursing Agencies 12/1/1948 12/31/1948
9 History of Vital Statistics 1/1/1950 12/31/1950
10 Department of Public Health: Notes on Early Public Health in Seattle by Robert J.M. Horton [1951] [copied in 1964] 1/1/1951 12/31/1951
11 Public Safety Building 1909-1951, City of Seatle [housed the Health Department] 1/1/1951 1/1/1951
12 Biographical record: Emil E. Palmquist, M.D. [Public Health Director] 2/1/1951 2/1/1951
13 Seattle-King County Department of Public Health: Employee Orientation Manual 1/1/1952 12/31/1952
14 Seattle-King County Department of Public Health: Joint Budget (Sea ordinance 79432; King Co. resolution 12356) 10/29/1952 10/29/1952
15 Seattle-King County Department of Public Health: Legislation enabling merger 1/9/1957 1/9/1957
16 Administrative Survey - Volume IX Public Health Department, City of Seattle 6/1/1957 6/30/1957
17 Seattle-King County Department of Public Health: Venereal Disease Control Program 9/11/1957 9/11/1957
18 Report by Committee on Evaluation of Seattle-King County Department of Public 3/1/1958 3/31/1958
19 Policies of Seattle-King County Department of Public Health 4/21/1958 4/21/1958
20 Analysis of City-County Health Department Budget Request 10/1/1959 10/1/1959
21 County Responsibility in the Public Health Function 10/1/1959 10/1/1959
22 Recommendations for an Occupational Health Program in the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health 3/1/1960 3/31/1960
23 Seattle-King County Department of Public Health: Responsibilities and Authority of Divisions 6/6/1958 2/7/1961
24 Definitions of health 3/9/1961 3/9/1961
25 Decentralization - Class Discussion, University of California, Berkeley 4/1/1961 4/30/1961
26 Communications relationships 7/27/1961 7/27/1961
27 Legal responsibility of the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health in the incorporated areas of King County 7/31/1961 7/31/1961
28 Community Health Services and Facilities (H.R. 4998 - P.L. 87-395) 10/25/1961 10/25/1961
29 Who Cares About Your Health? / findings of the Health Committee of the League of Women Voters of Bellevue / An analysis of public health hrotection in the eastside suburban area with an evaluation of public health services in the city of Bellevue 11/1/1961 11/1/1961
30 Correspondence: excerpt from letter from Dr. E.E. Palmquist 6/4/1964 6/4/1964
31 Currents in Public Health 10/1/1964 10/31/1964
32 Washington State House bills - No. 236: Creating Health Districts; No. 498: Public Health Stats 1/29/1965 1/28/1967
33 Legislation: Summary of House Bill No. 466 - Uniform Law for All Local Health Departments 1/1/1967 1/31/1967
34 Legislation: Senate Bill No. 31 - Treatment and Rehabilitation of Alcoholics 2/1/1967 2/28/1967
35 Seattle-County Metro - Election Returns 2/13/1968 2/13/1968
36 Washington State Planning and Community Affairs Agency: Comprehensive Health Planning - Interim Report 1/1/1969 12/31/1969
Box 2 1 WAC 246-100-450: Rabies 1/1/1970 12/31/1970
2 Action in health care: Washington/Alaska Regional Medical Program 7/1/1970 7/31/1970
3 Health Services: News clippings [primarily late 1960s; includes photocopy of one 1927] 1/1/1965 12/31/1971
4 Seattle-King County Department of Public : Financial Reports - 1968 and 1970 3/27/1969 1/1/1971
5 Organization, operation, and financing of public health services in King County 1/1/1971 12/31/1971
5 U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare / The Economics of Fluoridation 8/1/1971 8/31/1971
6 Legislation: Bills Passed by the Washington State House and Senate - 1971 5/20/1971 5/20/1971
8 Seattle-King County Department of Public Health: Surveys, appraisals, evaluations and studies 7/16/1971 7/16/1971
9 Mission statement 9/27/1971 9/27/1971
10 Seattle-King County Department of Public Health - 1973 Budget Memoranda 1/1/1972 12/31/1972
11 Correspondence - Statutory requirements 2/22/1972 2/22/1972
12 Compliance with Initiative 276 - Public Access of Records 12/29/1972 1/4/1973
13 Organizational changes 6/2/1975 6/2/1975
14 Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - Brochures and clippings 1/1/1969 12/31/1976
15 Historical background [compiled for U.S. bicentennial] 1/1/1976 12/31/1976
16 Seattle-King County Department of Public Health - Program Description 1/1/1978 12/31/1978
17 King County Executive: Proclamation, Immunization Action Month, October 1978 10/1/1978 10/1/1978
18 City-County agreements of Seattle-King County Department of Public Health 3/4/1949 1/27/1982
19 Seattle-King County Health Department - News Releases 1/1/1979 12/31/1982
20 Annual Health Department picnics [calendar posters for first and third events] 1/1/1981 12/31/1983
21 King County Medical Society / 100 years 1/1/1988 12/31/1988
22 Historical Department items [includes centennial exhibit researcher's note, research pictures and photo of hospital (UW photo); Public Health Then and Now, 1889 to 1989, centennial report; history of prostitution in Seattle with research attachments] 2/17/1989 2/17/1989
23 Environmental Health history [1989 conference address; 1985 division observations; 1987 memo on role of division] 9/3/1985 3/29/1989
24 The status of the community health system in Seattle 6/28/1993 6/28/1993
25 Record of all health officers serving the City of Seattle 9/20/1954 12/31/1994
26 [Staff history - research and report items by or about staff] 7/28/1943 4/28/1995