Tuberculosis

The Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital, in Salem, OR, began admitting patients in 1910 and later merged with the University of Oregon Medical School State Tuberculosis Hospital. The collection contains reports, birth certificate books, admissions and discharges, scrapbooks, photographs, and correspondence.

The Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital began admitting patients in 1910. This album, which dates from 1926 to 1929, contains photographs that depict patients, staff, and the buildings and grounds of the hospital.

The People’s Institute worked to provide social services for the urban poor while the Portland Free Dispensary was an early effort to provide health services to the underserved. They served as a model of collaboration between the city’s charitable organizations and its medical community. This collection contains a variety of reports, correspondence, and other materials relating to the work of the People's Institute and Portland Free Dispensary.

This collection is composed of public health surveys of towns primarily located in the Pacific Northwest conducted between 1930 and 1932 and includes information on topics such as diseases, foodstuffs, and water supply. As of 2017, all surveys from the state of Oregon have been digitized and are available online, with data transcriptions available, through the LSTA-funded "Public Health in Oregon" project of OHSU.

The University of Oregon Medical School has operated or been affiliated with a variety of hospitals and clinics. This collections holds records of some of those institutions, including hospital registers, death books, and other assorted registration and medical care ledgers dating from 1915 to 1973.