Pandemic and Epidemic Resources Found in the SWHA
The SWHA has organized their resources by outbreak.
“SPANISH" INFLUENZA PANDEMIC OF 1918-1919
Survey magazine, a progressive reform and social work serial that included articles and visual information on social issues. Issues of Survey and related publications are available in the Umedia digital content site and in Hathitrust Digital Library
Here are few examples of articles that include information on the social work and public health aspects of the pandemic.
- Frances Hayward. “A Brotherhood of Misericordia” The Survey, November 9, 1918. (Volume 41, Issue 6) Article on the New York Municipal Lodging House during the 1918-1919 pandemic. Includes a photo. See page 4 in this file http://purl.umn.edu/262447
- MURPHY, J. P. (1918). Aftermath of influenza. Survey (1909), 41, 212–214. This article discusses a plan by Ida M Cannon, a medical social worker at Massachusetts General Hospital, to address the epidemic of Spanish Flu in Massachusetts. The article discusses the relationship between medical and social service responses to the crisis.
- PRICE, G. M. (1918). Mobilizing social forces against influenza. Survey (1909), 41, 95–96. This article includes discussion of the role of public health departments, visiting nurses, and settlement houses.
- WALD, L. D. (1920). Influenza. Survey (1909), 43, 579–581. Article by Lillian Wald, founder of the Henry Street Settlement, comparing New York City to a field hospital during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919 and discussing the work of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service.
TUBERCULOSIS
National Social Welfare Assembly records, National Social Work Council, 1911-1956.
Monthly Meeting, 1944 (Box 10, Folder 98) Minutes of June 2, 1944 meeting of the National Social Work Council. Lengthy discussion of the program and funding of the National Tuberculosis Association. Document starts on page 142 of the digitized folder.
National Conference of Charities and Corrections/National Conference on Social Welfare proceedings. The proceedings date from 1874 to 1982 and are full text searchable online. The Conference was a meeting of reformers, educators, prison and institution officials, social workers (and their early counterparts), members of various civic, religious and charitable groups, academics, etc.
- How to find papers in the NCSW proceedings:
- Click "simple searches"
- Select "table of contents" or "full text" from the drop down menu.
- Enter your term in the "find" box. Search for consumption, consumptive, tuberculosis, public health, sanatorium, or the names of specific state hospitals, sanatoria, or institutions.
- You may also choose a range of dates to search using the drop down menu.
- Click search.
- You will get a list of individual volumes of the proceedings that contain your search term. The list of volumes appears in chronological order.
- Click on "results details" to open the results for a particular year.
- You will see the page numbers where the search term appears. Click on a page number to open that page. You may need to click "back" to find the beginning of the paper.
- If searching the table of contents, then make note of the page where the paper you want to read starts. Use the drop down menu to find that page and click on the page to open it.
- Click next to move through the paper
- Examples from the NCSW proceedings:
- National Conference on Charities and Corrections/ National Conference on Social Welfare Proceedings
- S.A. Knopf “What Shall we do with the Consumptive Poor?” Official proceedings of the annual meeting: 1902. P 218-230
- National Conference on Charities and Corrections/ National Conference on Social Welfare Proceedings, Official Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, 1933
- See conference papers on tuberculosis, pages 197-235
Survey magazine and related publications include extensive references to prevention and treatment of tuberculosis; related public health issues and programs; sanatoria, hospitals and institutions; and TB in the context of providing social casework assistance to individuals and families.
Myers, J. Arthur, and Minnesota Public Health Association. Invited and Conquered : Historical Sketch of Tuberculosis in Minnesota. Minnesota Public Health Association, 1949.
POLIO
Survey Associates. The Survey, June 2, 1917. (Volume 38, Issue 10). 1917-06-02. University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives., umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll336:2916 Accessed 30 Jul 2020. Seymour, Gertrude. Poliomyelitis: A Winter’s Work and Study
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