CA-FF. Public Health
Record Group
Identifier: CA-FF
Records created by departments responsible for hospitals, mental health, and public health initiatives. The city's public health offices often worked closely with state departments, often as hybrid city or state departments.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Board of Commissioners of the Fink Asylum Fund
Collection
Identifier: CA-CCF
Scope and Contents
Manuscript records, mostly of a financial nature, dealing with the construction and operation of the Fink Asylum and with the investments made with Fink legacy funds.
Cashbooks (2 vols., 1861-1957) provide a daily record of cash derived from investments, real estate sales, and sundries, along with detailed cash expenditures
Ledgers (3 vols., 1861-1957) list the monthly activity of each account within the Fink Fund.
Also included is one volume of Board minutes...
Dates:
1861-1957
Found in:
City Archives
City Insane Asylum records
Collection
Identifier: CA-FM
Scope and Contents
Records of the City Insane Asylum include:
- Record of entries and releases
- Record of patients' next of kin
- A monthly register of patients
- Record of Patients
Dates:
1858-1882
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
Touro-Shakespeare Home
Collection
Identifier: CA-FDE
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a financial ledger and reports to the Board of Managers and auditors.
Dates:
1934
Found in:
City Archives