File is a photograph of Dr. Sieniewicz examining a little boy with a nurse at a desk nearby. Photograph is associated with the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission and Health Centre No. 1.
Item is a photograph of a Health Centre No. 1 nurse measuring a baby. Accompanying inscription reads: [1919]. Measuring the baby, Health Centre Number One.
File is a photograph of Dr. J.A.M. Hemmeon performing ear exam at Health Centre No. 1 Ear Clinic with nurses nearby. Accompanying inscription reads: [1919] Dr. J.A.M. Hemmeon's Ear Clinic.
File is a photograph of the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission. Accompanying inscription reads: Nurses at the entrance of Health Centre No. 1. Front Row: Miss. Fenton; Miss. Ross; Miss. MacDonald; Miss. Merlin. Second Row: Miss Small, Miss Keatinge; Miss. Godard: Miss Hubley. Back Row: Miss. Graham.
File is a photograph of the Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission nurse weighing a baby with mother besides. Accompanying inscription reads: Weighing the baby: Health Centre Number One.
File is a photograph of Dr. Hemmeon's Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic and has two nurses, one doctor and a little girl. Accompanying inscription reads: Dr. J.A.M. Hemmeon's E.N. & T. Clinic, Health Centre Number One.
File is a photograph of the Health Centre No. 1: Open Air Camp. Accompanying inscription reads: Part of an open air day camp at Health Centre No. 1, there under-nourished children in contact with tuberculosis were re-claimed during the summer of 1921 by the Anti-Tuberculosis League of Halifax.
File is a photograph of visitors to the Visitors Health Centre No. 1. Legend below photograph lists visitors. Legend reads: "Distinguished Visitors Health Centre No. 1, Decemeber 20, 1920. Front row: His Excellency the Duke of Devonshire - Governor General of Canada. To his left, His Honour, Lieutenant-Governor MacCallum Grant. To his right, Mr. G. Fred Pearson, Chairman Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission. In the doorway, right side: Dr. W.H. Hattie, Provincial Health Officer. Left side: Edwin N. Gunsaulus, American Consul General at Halifax, Nova Scotia."
File is a photograph with legend below. Legend reads: "Autumnal round-up of children at Health Centre No. 1 having tonsils and adenoids removed during the summer holiday. The group is taken at the entrance of the health centre."
Item consists of an outline of general information related to the original Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, drafted by Arthur Shears in the late-1950s.
Item consists of a promotional pamphlet created by the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Council (M.A. Wilson, President at the time) titled "The Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre", about the opening of and services provided by the original rehabilitation centre, opened in the late-1950s under the leadership of Arthur Shears.
File contains notes on medical data relevant to hemoglobin. Includes lists of Sahli percentages and charts comparing averages. Also includes a memo regarding summary data from random village hemoglobin samples.
Item consists of two drafts of an announcement about the opening of the School of Physiotherapy at Dalhousie University, beginning September 3, 1963; as well as a handwritten sheet outlining the experience of Arthur Shears, first director of the School.
File contains a 24 page report prepared by the Custodial Care Study Committee, which was established by Order-in-Council No. 2014/62. The file also contains correspondence between Robert U. Doyle, Assistant Executive Director of the Welfare Council, and J.D. Campbell, Executive Director of the Alberta Hospitalization Benefits Plan. The file also contains a copy of the Alberta Nursing Home Act of 1964 and the Nursing Home Plan Regulations, both of which arose out of the report.
Subseries consists of joint mental and physical health evaluations for male and female study respondents. Also contains a complete respondent master list with code and case number information.
Item consists of a report created by Norman A. Brady & Associates (consultants in health facilities planning) about the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, dated November 21, 1968.
Item consists of clippings of articles written in 1969 by Barbara Hinds for the Chronicle Herald and Mail Star about wait times and overcrowding issues at the original Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre.
Item consists of a typed letter from Arthur Shears to Barbara Hinds, dated March 6, 1969, about editorial suggestions related to Hinds' coverage of the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre.
Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.
Item consists of a photograph of Nova Scotia Premier Gerald Regan (far left of the picture, wearing a white raincoat and helmet) and eight other unidentified people at the ground-turning for the new Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre, Anderson Square, Halifax, March 1975.
