Margaret McGee Higgins public health scrapbook, ca. 1937-1942.
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Advertising -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
American Public Health Association.
American Red Cross.
Bass, W.A., -- (William Arthur), -- d.1972.
Business enterprises -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Children -- Health and hygiene -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Children with disabilities -- Education -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Communicable diseases -- Prevention -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Davidson County (Tenn.). -- Health Department.
Deaf -- Tennessee -- Nashville -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
First aid in illness and injury -- Study and teaching.
Galloway, Robert Knox.
Health boards -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Health education -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Health officers -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Health.
Hearing impaired -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Higgins, Margaret McGee, -- 1902-1994.
Home and school -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Home economics.
Hospitals -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Hubbard Hospital (Nashville, Tenn.).
Hygiene.
Immunization -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Junior League of Nashville. -- Home for Crippled Children.
Leathers, Waller Smith, -- 1874-1946.
Lentz, John J., -- 1885-1970.
Malnutrition in children -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Measles -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Medicine -- Tennessee -- Nashville -- History.
Meharry Medical College.
Nashville (Tenn.) -- Commerce.
Nashville (Tenn.) -- Economic conditions.
Nashville (Tenn.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Nashville (Tenn.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Nashville (Tenn.). -- Board of Education.
Nashville (Tenn.). -- Board of Health.
Nashville (Tenn.). -- Health Department.
Nashville Academy of Medicine.
Nashville Dental Society.
Nashville League for the Hard of Hearing.
Nurses -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Overton, John, -- 1880-1944.
Physicians -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Protestant Hospital (Nashville,Tenn.).
Public health -- Tennessee -- Davidson County -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Public health -- Tennessee -- Nashville -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Public health -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Public health administration -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Public health nursing -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Public schools -- Health aspects.
Saint Thomas Hospital (Nashville, Tenn.).
Sanitation -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
School boards -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
School children -- Diseases -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
School children -- Health and hygiene.
School children -- Medical examinations.
School children -- Tennessee -- Nashville -- Economic conditions.
School health services -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
School hygiene -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
School nursing -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Schools -- Health aspects.
Sexually transmitted diseases -- Study and teaching.
Syphilis -- Prevention -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Syphilis -- Treatment -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Teachers -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Tennessee Education Association.
Tuberculosis -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
Vanderbilt University. -- Hospital.
Vanderbilt University. -- School of Medicine.
Women -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
Women in medicine -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
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Format
Document/manuscript/pamphlet/archival material
Physical Desc
5 folders.
Language
English

Notes

Organization & arrangement of materials
First folder arranged in sections identified by letter, thereunder by page number, assigned at time of processing and based upon original arrangement of scrapbook.
General Note
Materials housed in Special Collections Division of the Main Library, Nashville Public Library.
General Note
Housed in Small Collections Box 5.
Restrictions on Access
In library use only. Available by appointment.
Description
Scope and content: Photocopy of scrapbook of newspaper clippings, ca. 1937-1941, concerning public health, school health programs, and related topics in Nashville, Tenn. compiled by Margaret McGee Higgins. Many pages in the scrapbook are arranged in a "layered" fashion. Such pages have been photocopied in their entirety, in their original layout, followed by copies of the individual articles from the same page. Each original layered page is identified by a letter designation; copies of full articles from the original layered page are further identified by a page number. The latter portion of the collection includes photocopies of articles, advertisements, and fillers from the Nashville Banner newspaper special section relating to medicine in Nashville, issued July 18, 1937. A number of these advertisements are for local businesses. One original photograph of an exhibit at Pearl High School for Negro Health Week in April 1937 is also part of the collection.
Description
The scrapbook documents a wide variety of health-related issues in Nashville. Most involve public health issues in the school system, but many broaden their focus to the school system, public health, and public officials in general. Numerous articles concern the activities of Dr. Robert Knox Galloway, director of health services for Nashville City Schools. Also prominently mentioned is W.S. Leathers, Dean of Vanderbilt University Medical School; John J. Lentz, Davidson County health officer; Dr. John Overton of the City Health Department; and W. A. Bass, City School Superintendent. A number of Dr. Galloway's speeches or writings are reproduced or summarized, including his advocacy of the role of public schools in safeguarding public health.
Description
Two local events documented in the collection are especially noteworthy. In Oct. 1939, under the direction of Dr. John J. Lentz, Davidson County became the first county high school system in the South to institute a formal health program. In 1941, Nashville became the first city in the country to request a national instructor to train teachers in first aid, with the result that all but two of the forty-eight schools in the city had at least one teacher on staff with first aid training. The sessions were taught by representatives of the American Red Cross.
Description
Other school health topics include: contagious diseases such as measles, diphtheria, and tuberculosis; student absences due to lack of clothing; monthly student weigh-ins; and syphilis testing, prevention and education for high school students and engaged couples.
Description
Newspaper coverage of broader community issues include: discussions about instituting a milk ordinance; consolidating city and county health departments; controversy over the residency status of members of the Board of Education; salaries of local government employees; school sports; religion and education; and School Board and Health Board matters. A few topics relate to America's involvement early in World War II, including recruiting for the United States Cadet Nurses Corps and the health risk posed by women entering the workforce, working long and odd hours, and working in overcrowded conditions.
Description
A number of subjects relating to Nashville's medical history are also included, such as historical profiles of Vanderbilt, St. Thomas, Meharry, and Protestant Hospitals; biographies and photographs of prominent Nashville physicians and medical educators; and timelines of important medical milestones in the city's history.
Description
Other subjects featured in the scrapbook are the Junior League's Crippled Childrens' Home; Nashville League for the Hard of Hearing; the Welfare Speech Clinic; Vanderbilt Medical School, especially their cooperation and support efforts with school health matters in Nashville; activities of the local chapter of the American Red Cross; Nashville Academy of Medicine; Nashville Dental Society; and many other topics.
Description
A portion of the scrapbook contains numerous advertisements, most for Nashville businesses. Many ads relate directly to the health and medical fields; others use health-related themes as an advertising analogy, such as comparing the selection of a doctor to the selection of a bank. Some of the more noteworthy advertisements include a Phillips & Buttorff ad for air conditioners; an ad recommending Gerst brand when "your doctor orders beer;" an ad for the Cascade Plunge at Cumberland Park; and several ads for grocers, pharmacists, medical supply companies, clothing and department stores, nurses' uniforms, and items for the hard of hearing.
Description
Some of the companies featured in these advertisements include: Acousticon Institute; Anthony Pure Milk Co.; Armstrong's clothing; Atlantic Ale & Beer; Bennie-Dillon Building; Brother's grocery stores; Cain-Sloan department store; Candyland; Cascade Plunge at Cumberland Park; Castner-Knott department store; Claude P. Street Piano Co.; DeLuxe Ice Cream Co. (A.B. Catignani & Sons); Family Service Laundry; Franklin Limestone Co.; H. Cohen Furniture Co.; H.J. Grimes Co. dry goods store; Hartley Garment Co.; John S. Milam Optical Co.; Jumbo Bottling Co.; Kleeman's restaurant; Levy's clothier; Loveman's; Massey's pharmacy; McKesson-Berry-Martin, druggists; Mitchell's confectioners; Nashville Gas and Heating Co.; Nashville Pure Milk Co.; Nashville Tent & Awning Co.; Nashville Trust Co.; Phillips & Buttorff Manufacturing Company; Robertson Tire Co.; Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Shacklett's Cafeteria; Stumb's Ice Cream; Tennessee Valley Appliances; Tennessee Wholesale Drug Co.; Theo. Tafel Co., medical supplies; White Way Laundry; William Gerst Brewing Co.; Y.M.C.A; and Y.W.C.A.
Preferred Citation of Described Materials
Cite as: Margaret McGee Higgins Public Health Scrapbook, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Margaret H. "Bitsy" Thompson;,Gift;,2006.,Acc. 2006.044.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Materials relating to Charles McGee's employment with the railroad are at the Tennessee Central Railway Museum in Nashville, Tenn.
Biographical or Historical Data
Margaret McGee Higgins was born on Apr. 20, 1902 in Herrington, Kans., the daughter of Charles and Catherine McGee. She attended elementary school in Nashville, Tenn. at St. Patrick's Catholic School. In the 1920s, she married John Francis Higgins who was from Kinconly, County Galway, Ireland. Margaret attended St. Mary's Nursing School in Detroit, Mich., graduated in 1922, and returned to Nashville shortly thereafter. She and her husband had four children: Jack, Catherine "Kitty" (Mrs. Morris Brogden), Margaret Mary "Bitsy" (Mrs. Walton Thompson), and Thomas A. Higgins. Margaret went to work for the Nashville City Schools as a nurse during World War II, enabling another nurse, Miss Hankins from Cohn High School, to serve overseas. Margaret thought she would only be working during the war, but she continued her service with the schools afterwards, working in West Nashville at the five "feeder" schools whose students would attend Cohn High School. Her work involved calling on families whose children were sick, being on call for student health emergencies, and serving in the schools. She retired around 1978, and died in September of 1994.
Language
In English
Ownership and Custodial History
Original scrapbook loaned to Nashville Public Library for photocopying by Margaret H. "Bitsy" Thompson, September 2006. Scrapbook returned to donor, June 2007.
Action
copy,2007;,Marty O'Reilly.
Accumulation and Frequency of Use
No further accruals are expected.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Higgins, M. M. Margaret McGee Higgins public health scrapbook .

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Higgins, Margaret McGee, 1902-1994. Margaret McGee Higgins Public Health Scrapbook. .

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Higgins, Margaret McGee, 1902-1994. Margaret McGee Higgins Public Health Scrapbook .

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Higgins, Margaret McGee. Margaret McGee Higgins Public Health Scrapbook

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