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Guide to the Public Health Department Records
2007-001, 2007-004, and 2007-009
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Title: Public Health Department records
Dates: 1940-2006
Collection number: 2007-001, 2007-004, and 2007-009
Creator:
Santa Clara County (Calif.) Public Health Dept.
Collection Size:
22 archives boxes and 3 unboxed plaques
Repository:
Santa Clara County Archives.
San Jose, CA 95112-2527
Abstract: This collection contains records and documents created by the Public Health Department from 1940 to 2006. The majority of
the collection is statistical reports.
Physical location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult Archives staff.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research.
The Archives can claim physical ownership only for some collections. Users are responsible for securing permission of the
copyright holder for publication or quotation.
Public Health Department records, 2007-001, 2007-004, and 2007-009, Santa Clara County Archives.
This collection was transferred to the Archives by the Public Health Department in 2007.
This collection was in no particular order when accessioned. Most of the statistical reports were already housed in binders
and needed only to be put in chronological order and boxed. The older reports from the 1940s were foldered for protection.
However, the random administrative files had to be arranged loosely by function and chronology. Some folders needed replacing,
but the originals were kept when possible. The plaques are unboxed.
Counties were first mandated to care for the county welfare by the state legislature in 1850. The Public Health Department,
which has existed as a separate administrative unit from at least 1940, is responsible for assessing community health status,
preventing diseas, injury, and premature death, promoting health practices, and collecting vital statistics. In 1993 the
department was merged with the County hospital system to become part of the Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System
(SCVHHS.
Scope and Content of Collection
The bulk of this collection consists of statistical data collected by the Public Health Department, including birth reports,
death reports, morbidity reports, and published survey results, arranged first by type of report and then chronologically.
Also included are general administrative files that illuminate some of the processes through which these reports are generated,
as well as three plaques.
The collection is arranged by type of report and then chronologically. There are separate series for publications and administrative
files.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Santa Clara County (Calif.)
Public Health Statistics