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Milton Roemer collection of pamphlets and ephemera on health services
MSS 2001-27
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Title: Milton Roemer collection of pamphlets and ephemera on health services
Dates: 1916-1993
Collection Number: MSS 2001-27
Creator/Collector:
Roemer, Milton Irwin, 1916-2001
Extent: 12.5 linear ft. (10 cartons).
Repository:
UC San Francisco. Special Collections
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Abstract: Collection of pamphlets and ephemera on public health, socialized health care, medical economics. Bulk dates: 1930’s-1950’s.
Strengths: Rural Health, Industrial/Labor Health.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Library & Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the
Library & Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.
Milton Roemer collection of pamphlets and ephemera on health services. UC San Francisco. Special Collections
Transferred from UCLA Special Collections.
Biography/Administrative History
Milton Irwin Roemer was born Mar. 24, 1916, in Paterson, N.J. He received a B.A. in Biology from Cornell Univ., an M.A. in
Sociology from Cornell Univ., an M.D. from New York Univ., and did a rotating internship at the Barnett Memorial Hosp., Paterson,
N.J. He received an M.P.H. from the Univ. of Michigan. Roemer was medical officer at N.J. Dept. of Health, 1941-42, and worked
at the War Food Admin., U.S. Public Health Services, 1943-47. He was director at various prominent health organizations, 1948-57.
He taught in the Dept. of Health, School of Medicine, Yale Univ., 1949-51, and at the Sloan Inst. of Hosp. Admin., Cornell
Univ., 1957-62. He taught in the School of Medicine and School of Public Health at UCLA, 1962-87, and was head of various
medical divisions, 1962-70. He worked in 71 countries, and published 32 books and 430 articles on the social aspects of health
services. Roemer died 3 Jan. 2001 in Los Angeles.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection materials include reports, newsletters, brochures, articles, government documents, clippings, lecture typescripts,
forming the working and reference files for giving lectures, and writing papers on national and local health services, health
reforms, health legislation, and socialized health; chiefly 1930s-1950s. Subject strengths are Rural Health and Industrial/Labor
Health.
Medical policy
Medical care
Medical economics
Rural health