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Roemer (Milton) Collection of Health Services Pamphlets and Ephemera
Biomed.0196  
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  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Milton Roemer collection of health services pamphlets and ephemera
    Creator: Roemer, Milton Irwin
    Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0196
    Physical Description: 32.4 Linear Feet (32 cartons and 1 box)
    Date (inclusive): 1909-2000
    Language of Material: English .

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    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 4658366 

    Scope and Contents

    Collection contains reports, newsletters, brochures, inscribed reprints, local imprint publications, clippings, lecture typescripts, and correspondence forming the working and reference files for preparing international travel, giving lectures, and writing papers on national and local health services, health reforms, health legislation, and socialized health; chiefly 1930s-1990s.
    Milton Irwin Roemer was born March 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 January 2001 in Los Angeles.