New Orleans (La.). Board of Health
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1912 - 1954
Topics
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Department of Public Safety records
Collection
Identifier: CA-TC
Scope and Contents
This collections contains department subject files, as well as licenses for bars and chaffeurs.
Dates:
1912-1950
Found in:
City Archives
Index to Death Records, 1804 - 1916
Series
Scope and Contents
This index to Orleans Parish death certificates, arranged alphabetically within each year, was compiled for the New Orleans Health Department by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. It includes very few entries prior to 1819 (only one page of names, mostly of people whose deaths were recorded retroactively) and comparatively few prior to the mid-19th century.
Dates:
1804 - 1916
Mayor Martin Behrman records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Behrman
Scope and Contents
As in all of the pre-1936 Mayor's papers, the Behrman papers have been reconstructed from fragments previously unprocessed or dispersed in subject files kept in the Official Vertical File. The records are arranged alphabetically by name of corporate or individual correspondent. Correspondence marked with clear filing notes is filed according to the subject designated in the note and arranged chronologically therein.
Relatively few records have survived from the 16 years of...
Dates:
1904-1929
Found in:
City Archives
Mayor Robert S. Maestri records
Collection
Identifier: CA-AA-Maestri
Scope and Contents
The records consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence in two series (one consisting of manuscript correspondence and the other microfilm copies of correspondence), and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (also available on microfilm). There may be some duplication between the manuscript and microfilmed correspondence, but for the most part, the originals of the microfilmed series are no longer extant. In general, the correspondence reflects the day-to-day business of municipal...
Dates:
1936-1945
Found in:
City Archives
New Orleans Health Department records
Collection
Identifier: CA-FF
Scope and Contents
The New Orleans Health Department records contain vital records, correspondence, meeting minutes, annual reports, statistical reports, complaints and violations of Health Laws, and publications. They also contain records from specialized departments, including:
Bureau of Public Health Nursing Bureau of Public Health Nursing
Bureau of Tuberculosis Control
City Health Laboratory City Health Laboratory
City Smallpox Hospital, 1874-1879
Lead Poisoning...
Dates:
1898-1996
Found in:
City Archives