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A brief history of the Biggs Hospital Service Committee of the Tompkins County Health Association : presented at a meeting of the Hospital Service Committee

Collection — manuscript box: 46 - folder 1

Identifier: 2192m

Scope and content

Typescript history of the committee from its beginnings in 1941, signed by Clara Browning Goodman.

Dates

1962 January 17.

Creator

Goodman, Clara Browning, 1886- (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

The Biggs Hospital Service Committee was organized in 1941 as part of the Tuberculosis Association. Biggs Memorial Hospital was a tuberculosis sanatorium in Ithaca, New York. It closed in 1956, but the Service Committee then continued its work with patients in other Tompkins County hospitals.