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Title: Hutzel Hospital Collection Genre: Papers Dates: 1868-1985 Size: 8 linear feet, 8 manuscript boxes, 2 large flats, 1 storage box, 1 ledger volume ID#: 1572 OCLC: Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor & Urban Affairs |
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In November, 1868, seven members of the Ladies’ Christian Union opened the Woman’s Hospital and Foundlings’ Home in a tenement at Cass Avenue and Montcalm Street, a private, non-profit institution and the first facility in Detroit dedicated to providing care and shelter for abandoned, widowed and unwed mothers and their babies. The hospital’s Board of Trustees was comprised entirely of women as was its staff of resident physicians. A male Board of Counsel acted in an advisory capacity.
In 1929, the new, much larger Woman’s Hospital opened on the block surrounded by Forest, Hancock, Beaubien and Brush Streets. During the Depression, financial exigencies forced the hospital to admit men and begin offering general medical and surgical services, while still specializing in obstetrics and gynecology.
During its long history, Woman’s Hospital inaugurated several revolutionary social service programs for indigent women and their children, beginning with the creation of the Open Door Department (later the Social Services Department) to rehabilitate female prisoners discharged from the Detroit House of Correction and provide vocational training, enabling them to find employment and support their children.
In 1965, Woman’s Hospital changed its name to Hutzel Hospital, in honor of Eleonore Hutzel, director of Social Services from 1915 and a board member with a record of service spanning fifty years. The following year, an ambitious building and remodeling program was completed and the Board of Trustees voted to admit men to its membership.
Woman’s Hospital has always devoted itself to research into the diseases of women. When the hospital established the Grace Whitney Hoff Research Laboratory in 1909, it was the only laboratory in Michigan to specialize in the diseases of women and children. Hutzel Hospital is now part of the Detroit Medical Center, working with other hospitals and Wayne State University Medical School to provide high quality medical care to the Detroit community.
The Hutzel Hospital Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, clippings, publicity, biographical information on various directors and board members and other material documenting the history of women’s health care in Detroit.
Detroit Medical Center
Health Care - Children
Health Care - Detroit
Health Care - Women
Hospital Social Services
Hospitals - Detroit
Mother’s Milk Bureau
Nursing Education
Valley Farm Home
Charlotte B. Failing
Frank P. Iacobell
Helen Newberry Joy
Catherine M. Maloy
William C. Maybury
Dr. William Stapleton
Dr. Anna M. Starring
A large number of photographs and several audio tapes have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection. A number of issues of the hospital’s newsletter may be found in the Archives Library.
Contents |
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1-1 Annual reports, 1872-74, 1876, 1878, 1888-89
1-2 Annual reports, 1898, 1901, 1904-07
1-3 thru 4 Annual reports, 1911-14, 1916
1-5 Annual reports, 1921-22, 1924
1-6 Annual reports, 1947-60
1-7 Social Service Committee; annual report, 1913-16
1966-70
2-1 Articles of association & by-laws, 1875, 1899, 1901, 1905, 1910
2-10 Superintendent’s report, 1927
2-11 Safety deposit box inventory, 1954-55
2-12 Patient record; notebook, 1897-98
2-13 thru 14 Corresponding secretary; notebook, minutes, 1894-96, 1898-99
2-15 Avery, Clara A; address by, 1899
2-16 Financial report, 1893
2-17 Surgery course at Woman’s Hospital, 1923
2-18 Plans for enlargement; campaign to solicit support, 1923
2-19 Detroit Community Fund Election Committee, 1922
2-2 Articles of association & by-laws, 1913, 1926-27, 1941, 1967
2-20 Valley Farm Home, 1918
2-21 Social Service Committee; manual, 1912
2-22 thru 23 Campion, Agnes lecture series, 1915-18
2-3 thru 4 Delivery record, 1868-69
2-5 Detroit Medical College; photo, 1868
2-6 New building site on Grand River, 1876
2-7 Detroit Free Dispensary; corres., 1916
2-8 Old hospital dimensions, n.d.
2-9 Penfield, William; settlement of will, 1895
3-1 Newborns & nurses picture, 1920
3-10 Directory, 1927
3-11 Standing Committees list, 1927
3-12 Training schools for nurses; pamphlets, 1912-14
3-13 thru 14 Training School for Nurses, 1920, 1924
3-15 Training School for Nurses; annual report, 1923
3-16 Training School for Nurses; circular of information, 1928
3-17 Patient handbook, n.d.
3-18 Employee 100th Anniversary Committee meeting; minutes, 1969
3-19 “Health Care for the City”; article, 1969
3-2 New building, 1892
3-20 Nurses notebook, n.d.
3-21 Hospital library, 1970
3-22 Maloy, C.M.; memoranda, 1952-57
3-23 “In a hospital”; poem, n.d.
3-24 Speech; “Dig deeply”, n.d.
3-25 Administrative manual, n.d.
3-26 “Problems of the Hospital”, n.d.
3-27 “Woman’s Hospital Cares”; address to the board, n.d.
3-28 Newborns; admission, rules, n.d.
3-29 Pledges, 1946-52
3-3 Building fund, 1924
3-30 Photographs, copies of, 1868-1985
3-31 Information sheet, n.d.
3-32 News release, 1969
3-33 thru 34 Board members; card file index, 1949
3-35 Professional Plaza Profile; Detroit Medical Center publication, 1964,
3-36 Communications systems; clippings, 1976
3-37 Patient bill; 1930
3-4 Physician’s report, 1884
3-5 Medical staff meeting; announcement, 1923
3-6 Girl’s Friendly Society Convalescent Home, 1923
3-7 Medical Control Committee; report, 1924
3-8 Clinic Committee; report, 1924
3-9 Build for the Womanhood of Detroit, 1924
4-1 American Child Health News; clipping, 1930
4-2 Medical Woman’s Journal; clipping, 1928
4-24 Recording secretary’s book; Board of Trustees minutes, etc., 1904-05
4-3 Clippings, n.d.
4-4 “A Model Hospital”; clipping, 1890
4-5 Clippings, 1897
4-6 Clippings, 1917-18
4-7 thru 23 Clippings, 1922-78
5-1 Information, circular of, 1916
5-10 “Vocational Guidance at Maternity Hospital”; speech by Elizabeth Fish, 1933
5-11 Premature infants; article, 1933
5-12 Philanthropies, Department of; report, 1935
5-13 Surgical care; cost estimate & rates, 1937, 1941-42, 1944
5-14 Memorial Maternity Center; brochure, 1928
5-15 Maternity Hospital; activities program, 1938
5-16 Obstetrical rates, 1938
5-17 Obstetrical report, 1948, 1952
5-18 Board of Trustees; membership, 1939
5-19 Board ofTrustees; misc., 1940
5-2 Endowment funds ledger, 1902
5-20 thru 21 History of Woman’s Hospital by Marguerite Auberle, 1941
5-22 thru 24 History of Woman’s Hospital, 1944, 1969, 1980
5-25 Historical abstract, 1972
5-26 “OB-GYN: A History of the Department”; drafts, 1986
5-27 “Physiologic Handicaps of Premature Infants”; booklet, 1942
5-28 Seventy-fifth anniversary booklet, 1944
5-29 Special funds & special gifts list, 1946
5-3 Grace Whitney Hoff Research Laboratory; dedication exercises, 1909
5-30 Gifts; proposed schedule, 1946
5-31 Holt, Lillian; memorial to, 1949
5-32 Baby formula; booklet, 1951
5-33 Sex education; clippings, 1947
5-34 “Negroes Charge Bias”; clippings, 1965
5-35 Christmas party, 1949, 1954, 1957
5-36 Memorial Maternity Center; dedication, 1954
5-37 Volunteer League; by-laws, 1955
5-38 Nightshift; clippings, 1975-76
5-39 Auxiliary; clippings, 1975-76
5-4 Board of Trustees; membership directory, 1922
5-40 Doctors; clippings, 1975-76
5-41 African Americans in the field of medicine; clippings, 1975-76
5-42 Malpractice insurance; clippings, 1975-76
5-5 Plans for new hospital, 1928
5-6 New Woman’s Hospital; cost estimate, 1928
5-7 Woman’s Hospital; booklet, 1929
5-8 New Woman’s Hospital; dedication, 1929
5-9 Junior Social Services Committee; organizational chart & clippings, 1932
6-1 Memorial building campaign; prospect list, 1946
6-10 Detroit District Student Nurses Association Bulletin, 1951
6-11 Mothers; advice to, 1952
6-12 Board of Trustees list, 1959
6-13 Board of Trustees; corres., information bulletins, 1968
6-14 Hutzel name change; clippings, 1965
6-15 United Community Services, 1953
6-16 Policy of woman’s hospital, statement of, 1955
6-17 “Rules & Minimum Standards for Hospitals”, 1956
6-18 Chapel dedication, 1957
6-19 Outpatient Clinic; report, 1958
6-2 Memorial building campaign; speech, 1946
6-20 Construction needs, 1958
6-21 Joint Hospital-Medical School Committee, 1961
6-22 Plans for hospital, 1965
6-23 Intern-resident program, n.d., 1966
6-24 Nurses; pay schedule, 1966
6-25 “Hutzel Builds an Image”; clippings, 1966
6-26 Detroit riot, 1967 Jul
6-27 “Hospital Board Control and Responsibility Over Quality Care”, 1967
6-28 Volunteer League; annual report, 1966-69
6-29 Directory, 1968-69
6-3 Memorial Maternity Center, 1946
6-30 Information bulletin, 1967
6-31 Food service, 1968
6-32 thru 33 Centennial, 1968-69
6-34 Centennial; news releases, 1969
6-35 Centennial; clippings, 1969
6-36 Speech; “Open that door Richard!”, 1947
6-37 Nelson, Irene, R.N.; clippings, 1975
6-38 GED (General Developmental Education) Test; clippings, 1975
6-39 Breast cancer; clippings, 1975
6-4 Lichtwardt, Hartman; appointed new medical director, 1946
6-5 Wet nursing, 1946, n.d.
6-6 Nursery school & day care, 1947
6-7 Open Door Department, 1899
6-8 Hospital Day; booklets, pamphlets, 1949
6-9 Premature baby report, 1951
7-1 Beaver, Donald C.; biography, 1955
7-10 Kennedy, Dr. Robert; biography, 1958
7-11 La Ferte, Dr. Daniel; obituary, 1922
7-12 Daniels, Dr. Lewis; obituary, 1955
7-13 Lichtwardt, Hartman A.; biography, 1959
7-14 Nelson, Harry Monroe; biography, 1983
7-15 Stapleton, Dr. William; biography, 1923
7-16 Waddell, Charlotte E.; biography, n.d.
7-17 Winkler, Ruth; corres., 1969, 1974
7-18 Van Hoosen, Bertha; biography, 1952
7-19 Detroit Medical Center; pamphlet, 1981
7-2 Failing, Charlotte B.; corres., 1975
7-20 Detroit Medical Center; map, 1963
7-21 Detroit Medical Center; project report, 1964
7-22 Detroit Medical Center; clippings, 1969
7-23 Prenatal care, a guide for; booklet, 1949
7-24 Hospitals; misc. pamphlets, n.d., 1945, 1950, 1952, 1958
7-25 Change of address notice, 1976
7-26 Hutzel Hospital; fact sheet, n.d.
7-27 Medical staff composition, n.d.
7-28 Obstetrics & Gynecology Department, n.d., 1969, 1974-75, 1977-79
7-29 Dedication of south building, 1977
7-3 Dempsey, Edith; corres., 1969
7-30 Logos and symbols for Hospital, 1969
7-31 Correspondence, 1910, 1919
7-32 Correspondence, 1944, 1946, 1949
7-33 Correspondence, 1954, 1956, 1965-66
7-34 Gifts; corres., 1944
7-35 Hospital addition; corres. re., 1948, 1950
7-36 Maybury, Mayor; corres., 1897
7-37 Starring, Dr. Anna M.; corres. re interns, 1914
7-38 Joy, Helen Newberry; corres. re new building, 1920
7-39 Stapleton, Dr. William; corres., 1924, 1927
7-4 Holt, Lillian; obituary, 1949
7-40 Memoranda; misc., 1948
7-41 House physicians; memorandum, 1909
7-42 Durocher, Don; memos re. Hutzel in the news, 1975
7-43 Zonta Club donations, 1975
7-44 Insurance record, 1916-19
7-45 Insurance record, 1948-64
7-5 Iacobell, Frank P., 1965
7-6 Joy, Helen Newberry; biography, 1958
7-7 Judd, C. Hollister; obituary 1949
7-8 Kamperman, Dr. George; Obstetrics & Gynecology Society, c1970s
7-9 Kasabach, Dr. Harry; obituary, 1969
8-1 thru 2 Patient care, philosophy of; manual, 1981
8-10 Surgical Department; minutes, reports, 1940
8-3 Patient care, philosophy of; manual, 1981-82
8-4 thru 5 HELP ; agenda, minutes, memos, 1981-85
8-6 HELP (Hutzel employee lifeline program); agenda, minutes, reports, 1980s
8-7 Gynecological Department meetings, minutes, reports, 1938-40
8-8 Medical Department meetings; minutes, reports, 1938-40
8-9 Obstetrical department meetings; minutes, reports, 1938-40
9 History of Woman’s Hospital; layout, n.d.
Ledger Birth register, 1914-19
10-1 Nurses, rating report on, 1909-29
10-2 Patient’s account & names, 1929
10-3 Blueprints, 1920
10-4 Plans for hospital, n.d.
10-5 Opening of new Woman’s Hospital; clippings, 1929
11 Bulletin of the Woman’s Hospital, Jan 1957, Jan 1958
11 Woman’s Hospital News Bulletin, Oct 1936-Nov 1942
11 Woman’s Hospital News Bulletin/Focus, Oct 1946-Dec 1976, Mar 1979, Jan 1986