BUENA VISTA SANATORIUM:
An Inventory of Its Subject Files at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Buena Vista Sanatorium (Wabasha, Minn.). | |
| Title: | Subject Files. | |
| Dates: | 1916-1955. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Files of correspondence, statistics, and other documentation on sanatorium administrative matters and historical information. | |
| Quantity: | 10 folders in partial box. | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Files include service contracts with Wabasha and Winona counties, questionnaires and surveys, staff lists, patient statistics, correspondence with the sanatorium commission and the state Social Welfare Division, correspondence regarding WPA-funded remodelling work and a tuberculosis survey, and an engineering report on the sanatorium's X-ray department.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Buena Vista Sanatorium (Wabasha, Minn.). Subject Files. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession numbers: 981-107; 998-6
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 990017046880104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 109.H.17.8F | Miscellaneous Superintendent's Correspondence, 1916-1919. | ||||||||||
| Contracts with Counties, 1921-1955. | |||||||||||
| With Wabasha and Winona counties, for treatment of patients and related services. Incomplete prior to 1946. | |||||||||||
| Legal Documents, 1916-1922. | |||||||||||
| Primarily carbon copies of district court documents regarding the appraisal and condemnation of land for sanatorium construction and sewerage system. Originally from the records of the Wabasha County auditor. | |||||||||||
| Questionnaires and Reports, 1917, 1949-1954. | |||||||||||
| An inspection report (1917); staff lists (1949); applications for license renewal (1953, 1954); and questionnaires and surveys from state and federal agencies eliciting statistical and financial data. | |||||||||||
| Patient Days/County: Monthly Statements, 1952-January 1966. | |||||||||||
| Monthly summaries, by county, of the number of days patients received treatment at the sanatorium. | |||||||||||
| Patient Statistical Summaries, 1917-1929. | |||||||||||
| Annual summaries of patient symptoms, results of sputum examina¬tions and treatment, and number of days in treatment -- in general, and for certain kinds of cases. | |||||||||||
| Sanatorium Commission Correspondence, 1917-1951. | |||||||||||
| Regarding assorted administrative details and policy matters. Includes some staff lists. | |||||||||||
| Social Security Department, Social Welfare Division, 1937-1954. | |||||||||||
| Primarily correspondence regarding administrative matters and rate policies. | |||||||||||
| W.P.A., 1935-1942. | |||||||||||
| Correspondence regarding WPA-funded remodelling work and a district-wide tuberculosis survey. | |||||||||||
| X-Ray Department, 1952. | |||||||||||
| Report by the Minnesota Department of Health on an engineering study of the scattered X-ray radiation in the sanatorium's X-ray department. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Sanatoriums -- Minnesota -- Administration.
- Sanatoriums -- Minnesota -- Officials and employees.
- Tuberculosis -- Patients -- Statistics.
- Tuberculosis -- Hospitals -- Minnesota -- Maintenance and repair.
- Tuberculosis -- Minnesota.
- X-rays -- Therapeutic use.
- Organizations:
- Minnesota Work Projects Administration.
- Minnesota. Division of Social Welfare.
- Document Types:
- Contracts.
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