FONDS 3184 ERNEST BLACK STRUTHERS FONDS Accession …6-86 Struther’s personal documents and awards...

FINDING AID 3184

FONDS 3184

ERNEST BLACK STRUTHERS FONDS

Accession Number 1986.193C

Accession Number 1987.162C

Prepared by Bruce Lawrie

Revised by Amanda Tomé, December 2017

Ernest Black Struthers fonds 2

ERNEST BLACK STRUTHERS FONDS – 1912-1973. – 84 cm of textual records.

Ernest Black Struthers (1886-1977) was a medical missionary in China and Korea. He was born in Galt,

Ontario, and studied arts and medicine at the University of Toronto. He served as a medical missionary in

China, 1913-1950, with interruptions for military service and further studies. He taught at Cheeloo

University (Shandong), serving as Dean of the Medical College, 1942-1948. He served in the field of

tuberculosis control in Korea, 1953-1963, and worked for the Ontario Department of Health in the early

1950s and from 1963 to 1964. He was librarian at the Orthopedic and Arthritic Hospital in Toronto, 1966-

1973.

Fonds consists of diaries, correspondence; articles, notes, reports and other material re medical matters

in Korea.

See also Appendix A for a detailed item listing.

Acc. Box-File Title Date(s) 86.193C 1a-o Diaries 2-1 Letters 1912-1920 2-2 ---. 1923 2-3 ---. 1924 2-4 ---. 1925 2-5 ---. 1926 2-6 ---. 1927 2-7 ---. 1928 2-8 ---. 1929 2-9 ---. 1930 2-10 ---. 1931 2-11 ---. 1932 2-12 ---. 1933 2-13 ---. 1934 2-14 ---. 1935 2-15 ---. 1936 2-16 ---. 1937 2-17 ---. 1938 2-18 ---. 1939 2-19 ---. 1940 2-20 ---. 1941 2-21 ---. 1942 2-22 ---. 1943-1944 2-23 ---. 1945 2-24 ---. 1946-1947 2-25 ---. 1948 2-26 ---. 1949 2-27 ---. 1950 2-28 ---. 1951 2-29 ---. 1952 3-30 ---. Beginning of Korea Work 1953 3-31 ---. 1954 3-32 ---. 1955 3-33 ---. 1956 3-34 ---. 1957 3-35 ---. 1958 3-36 ---. 1959 3-37 Struthers to Dr. Eugene R. Campbell 3-38 Letters 1961


Acc. Box-File Title Date(s) 3-39 ---. 1962 3-40 ---. 1963 3-41 ---. 1964 3-42 ---. 1965 3-43 ---. 1966 3-44 ---. 1967 3-45 ---. 1968 3-46 ---. 1969 3-47 ---. 1970 3-48 ---. 1971 4-49 ---. 1972 4-50 ---. 1973 4-51 ---. 1974 4-52 ---. 1975 4-53 ---. 1976 4-54 Control Program Outlines 1950-1959 4-55 ---. 1960-1969 4-56 Unpublished articles on T.B. in Korea 4-57 ---. 4-58 ---. 4-59 ---. 4-60 Work re household contacts projects and

case histories

4-61 Various printed articles dealing mainly with T.B. treatment in underdeveloped countries – especially Korea

4-62 Newspaper clippings on Korea [ca. 1952]-1968 4-63 ---. 1960-1969 4-64 ---. [ca. 197-?] 4-65 ---. 1971-1972 4-66 ---. 1973 5-67 ---. 1974-1975 5-68 Pamphlets on pre-1949 China – letter from

H.J. Veals, Secretary, West china Mission to Dr. J. H Arnup, Leslie Kilborn – “Our Last Term in China, Reprint from Chinese Medical Journal, re. data on hospitals in occupied China “Fundamentals” Chinese Recorder, “Report on Medical Relief for Flood Refugees” Chinese Medical Journal

1924-1952

5-69 Miscellaneous notes and pamphlets on post-1949 China

1963-1974

5-70 China Notes 1968-1975 5-71 Asian Reports – various newsletters 1968-1974 5-72 Bowes, John Z. – “Imperialism and Medical

Education in China”

5-73 Miscellaneous medical articles 5-74 ---. 5-75 ---. 5-76 ---. 5-77 Articles on acupuncture 5-78 Articles on Cheeloo University 5-79 Articles on the Medical Passport System 5-80 Articles and notes on Kala-Azar in China


Acc. Box-File Title Date(s) 6-81 Artilces on T.B. Prevention Survey of Chest

clinics; Effectiveness of Chest X-Rays; Answers to Questionnaires

1950-1959

6-82 ---. 1960-1969 6-83 ---. 1960-1969 6-84 ---. 1960-1969 6-85 Various printed articles on breast cancer

mortality rates under control programmes 1900-1947

6-86 Struther’s personal documents and awards 6-87 Day book, notes re tuberculosis 6-88 Cheeloo University, date calendars 1935-1937 6-89 Epidemiology of Diseases of Naval

Importance in China (WWII)

6-90 War Department Bulletins – Medical and Sanitary Data for Formosa and South-East China

6-91 War Department Bulletins – Medical and Sanitary Data for Korea and North East China

6-92 Various articles re medicine 6-93 A.M.A. Journal for April 1958 6-94 Articles re tuberculosis in Korea 1959-1961 7-95 Articles re tuberculosis 1960-1969 7-96 Articles re tuberculosis 7-97 Life articles re China 1970-1979 7-98 Articles re tuberculosis; The Medical

Graduate, issue 1974

7-99 Tuberculosis in Ontario 1968 7-100 Tuberculosis Prevention, Annual Report 1968 7-101 Tuberculosis Prevention, Annual Report 1969 87.162C Box 1 Clippings, correspondence re: medical work

in Korea 1958-1971


APPENDIX A: DETAILED ITEM LISTING

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BOX 1

BOX 2

File

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Ernest Black Struthers

Personal Papers

Diaries F./LE-5 et- a

Letters 1912 - 1959t

Letters 1912-1920

Letters from/to mother and father; letters to/from E.B.'s wife, Margaret, and members of Struthers family; interesting letter on the "value of Chinese nurses".

Letters, 1923

Struthers to/from father and mother (mother's death April, 1923); Struthers to sisters, Helen and May, and brother Gordon re activities in China; Margaret Struthers to various members of the family.

Letters, 1924

Struthers, on furlough, letters to father; Margaret's letters to Helen and May; Dr. Robin Mosse (Tsinan) to Struthers.

Letters, 1925

Dr. Mosse to Struthers; Struthers to brother Pierson and other family members, while studying at the London School of Tropical Medicine; Margaret Struthers to family members; A.E. Armstrong, Secretary of the Presbyterian church in Canada, to Struthers.

Letters 1926

Struthers to family; Margaret to family; Dr. Mosse to Struthers

Letters, 1927

Notes on trip overland to Honan by Dr- McRae c. 1927; Struthers to family re activities in China; Margaret Struthers to family members. Dr. and Alice Mosse to Struthers family (Ernest and Margaret)

Letters, 1928

Circular from Shantung Christian University re unsettled con-ditions in China; Ernest Struthers to/from family members; Margaret to/from family members; Circular - Tsinan Medical Report re health of foreign residents - covering period October 1, 1927 to September 30, 1928.

8. Letters, 1929

Report for the 1928 covering medical/educational work and political developments; extracts from Robert A. Mitchell letter/Shantung University re events in China; STruthers to/from family; letter re death of father June, 1929.

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File 9. Letters, 1930

Struther to/from family; Margaret to/from family.

10. Letters, 1931

Struthers to/from family; Margaret to/from family.

11. Letters, 1932

S.B. Grubbs, U.S. Treasury Department - Public Health Service, to Struthers September 20, re China developments; Cheeloo newsletter from Struthers October 31; STruthers to/ from family; Margaret to/from family.

12. Letters, 1933

Robin Mousse to Struthers; Struthers to/from family; Margaret to/from family.

13. Letters, 1934

Struthers to/from family; Margaret fo/from family.

14. Letters, 1935


15. Letters, 1936

C.E. Fockener/Struthers re his work in China; A.E. Armstrong to/from Struthers re problems of financing Cheeloo University Medical School; "Public Health in Rural Schools" - "Public Health Activities" - E.B. Struthers ; Struthers to family; Margaret to family.

16. Letters, 1937


17. Letters, 1938

G.W. Sparling - "Our Journey to West China"; Ernest and Margaret Struthers letters to/from family.

18. Letters, 1939

Struthers to Dr. Armstrong re events in China and work of Medical school; Cheeloo Newsletter by Struthers - November 6; Ernest and Margaret Struthers letters to/from family

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Letters, 1940 - 1959

Letters, 1940

Newsletters from the WCUU (West China Union University) Medical School; Newsletters from the United Hospital of the Associated Universities in Chengtu; Ernest and Margaret to/from family.

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20. Letters, 1941

Ernest and Margaret to/from family (addressed from Szechwan)

21. Letters, 1942

Ernest and Margaret Struthers to/from family

22. Letters, 1943, 1944

Letters home from Junghsien, West China from Geraldine Hartwell re events in China 1943 - mentions 185h Army rebels against Chiang.

23. Letters, 1945

Gaylord Anderson (Lt. colonel Medical Corps) to Struthers re his return to China - release from War Department - Washington, May 19, 1945; Newsletter from Bill Mitchell from Chungking, May 20, 1945; Newsletter from Grace Sykes from Chengtu, June 5, 1945; Newsletter from Margaret Brown (Chengtu), October, 1945; letter to Dr. McClure re con-fiscation of Cheeloo Medical Library by Japanese.

24. Letters, 1946, 1947

Anti-Communist newsletter from John A. Abernathy (American Baptist) to West China Mission - May 25, 1946; letters from Struthers to family; letters to Struthers from former students.

25. Letters, 1948

Struthers report on medical situation in China - January 27; Struthers to Dr. Chan re kalazar patients - January 30; English Baptist Mission Hospital to Struthers re causes of kalazar in North China - February 4, 1948; Report of Dr. Struthers to Cheeloo Medical graduates - February 16, 1948; Dr. S. Chu to Professor M. Cadbury (Canton General Hospital) re kala-azar treatment - February 27; Dr. Menzies (Jenkins-Robertson Hospital Shensi, North China) to Struthers re kala-azar - March 6, 1948; Dr. H.T. Chu to Dr. Cadbury re kala-azar test - March 26; Dr. Cadbury to Struthers re kala-azar cases - March 31; Newsletters from G.E. Miller, Cheeloo University - April 4, 1948; Struthers letters to family.

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Struthers to J. Arnup re events in China; letter to Struthers re Endicott remark about the Chiangs; Arnup to Struthers re possible evacuation of people from West China - March, 1949; Struthers/Dr. Brock Chisholm (WHO) re possibility of estab-lishment of water filtration plant in Foochow; Newsletter from Cheeloo; Jesse Arnup to Struthers re conditions and prospects in China for the continuation of the UCC mission; several letters Struthers/family.

27. Letters 1950

Ruth H. Taylor - observations on developments in China; letters from J. Arnup to Struthers re retirement; Arnup/Struthers re status of missionaries in China; numerous letters from former students studying medicine in North America.

28. Letters 1951

Numerous letters from former students studying in North America many expressing gratitude for his work in China; Fred Scovel to Struthers re status of medical graduates from Cheeloo vis a vis American schools (especially the case of Dr. Ling Chih-ming).

29. Letters, 1952

Almost exclusively letters from former students now studying medicine abroad.

13a,< 3 30. Letters, 1953 - Beginning of Korea Work

Numerous letters from former students; letters of recommendation provided by Struthers for former students now studying in America; Dr. Douglas Farmer (Secretary, :Christian Medical Council for Overseas Work) to Dr. Rowland Cross re T.B. project in Korea; Cross/Struthers re Korea T.B. project and Struthers partici-pation in sam; Rowland Cross/Struthers re the building of a 100 bed sanitorium in Korea for anti-T.B. project; Douglas Foreman/Struthers re work of T.B. project; several letters from Dr. Foreman/Struthers re work and future of Severance Hospital, Korea; several letters Struthers/family.

31. Letters, 1954

Struthers work report - 1954; Korea Church World Service (CWS) chest clinics report for October , 1954; letters to/from Struthers re Korea T.B. work; letters from former students; letters to/from home.

32. Letters, 1955

Letters to/from family; letters to Struthers from former students; numerous letters from representatives of CWS re T.C. clinics in Korea.

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Letters from ex—students; Struthers letters to family especially re plans to work with ROK government and army in the establishment of medical/hospital facilities; letters to Struthers from Dr. Douglas Foreman re work of Christian Medical Council for overseas work; Struthers Christmas Message, 1956.

34. Letters, 1957

Letters to Struthers from Church World Service re account of medical facilities in Korea; letters from Christian Medical Council for Overseas Work re medical work in Korea; letters to Struthers from former students; letters from Walter Judd, U.S. Congress, House of Representatives; letter to Struthers from U.S. Embassy in London, England re his work in Korea and desire to arrange an interview, June 22, 1957; announcement of second marriage, July 20, 1957.

35. Letters 1958

Letters to STruthers from ex—Chinese students approaching him for letters of reference; letters to Struthers re financial donations for Korea work (especially John Hay Whitney); letters from CWS Director re Korea work; Newsletter from Korea, October 28; letters to/from family.

36. Letters 1959

Letters from former students; Newsletter from Seoul, November 20; letters to/from family.

BOX. Letters 1960's and 1970's

File 37. Struthers to Dr. Eugene R. Campbell re Chest Clinics in Korea; letters from former students re letters of reference; letters to Struthers from CWS re Korea work (noting his possible retirement); Saturday Evening Post article March 12, 1960 entitled "The World's Toughest Medical Problem"(focusing on Dr. Struthers); communication with Canadian and American government officials regarding the possibility of their funding the Korea T.B. work; several applications to private foundations re possibility of financial aid for Korea work.

38. Letters 1961

Letters to family; letters to foundations re funding of Korea work; several letters to/from Dr. Dorothy Frost, Executive Director of American Korean Foundation re medical educational work in Korea and deployment of personnel.

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File 39. Letters, 1962.

Letters from former students re letters of reference; letters to/from Struthers re family; letters to/from Dr. Dorothy Frost, Director of American Korean foundation re state of Korea work; letter from Elda Struthers re 14th birthday of ROK.

40. Letters, 1963

Letters to/from American-Korean Foundation; letters to/ from family; letters to/from former students; letter from Dr. Frost re Struthers leaving Korea.

41. Letters, 1964

Letters to Struthers re status of former students - with regard to their academic qualifications, references for immigration officials etc.; letters to/from immigration officials re the status of certain former pupils.

42. Letters, 1965

Letters from former students and colleagues in China and Korea; various letters from Florency Murray; newsletter from Florence Murray; letters to/from family.

43. Letters, 1966

B.B. Lawry, Director of National Council of churches of Christ (U.S.) to Struthers; Herbert Codington (new director of T.B. work in Korea) to Struthers; William Fenn, General Secretary of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia to Struthers.

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44. Letters, 1967

Letters from former students and colleagues in China; Herbert Codington/Struthers re T.B. work in Korea; letters to/from B. Lawry (Director CWS).

45. Letters, 1968

H.A. Codington/Struthers from Presbyterian Mission Christian Hospital; letters from former students.

46. Letters, 1969

Robert Lowry (Church World Service) to Struthers re state of T.B. project in Korea; letters from former Chinese students.

47. Letters, 1970

0 Letters from friends and ex-students; letters to/from various (--

university officials re the status of Cheeloo University and its graduates (especially Dr. Edward H.S. Chia).

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Letters from friends and ex-students.

i5c, x 49. Letters, 1972

Letters from former students e.g. Dr. Wen Hsiang-lai and Dr. Edward C.H. Shu.

50. Letters, 1973


51. Letters, 1974


52. Letters, 1975

Letters from friends and former students; interesting letter Claude Forkner/Struthers, March 31; College of Physicians and Surgeons/Struthers re status of Shantung U./Cheeloo status, October 3, 1975.

53. Letters, 1976

Letters regarding the application of Dr. Geng Ping-ming for registration with Provincial Medical Board of Nova Scotia; letter Dr. Teng/Struthers re his application, March 31, 1976; Application rejected, April 21, 1976.

BOX 4.- Tuberculosis Project in Korea

File 54. Control Program Outlines, 1950's.

The Korean AntiT.B. Project Group - Minutes of Meeting of September 10, 1953. Church World Service (CWS) Chest Clinic Report January 1 - March 31, 1954. T.B. Control in Korea (A five year plan), April 26, 1954. CWS - Chest Clinic - Report of June, 1954.

August, 1954 " " September, 1954.

Annual Report on American/Korean Foundation (AKF) - T.B. Control Project Activities - Covering September 1953 - August, 1954. CWS - Chest Clinic - Report for January, 1955

March, 1955 11 Iv u " April, 1955

June, 1955 T.B. Control in Korea - 3 year summary of CWS Project, April 27, 1956. CWS - Chest Clinic - Report for January, 1956

February, 1956 u u " January, 1957

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T.B. Control in Korea - October 28, 1957 CWS - Chest Clinic - Report for May, 1959

It " July, August, 1959 October, 1959. November, 1959.

File 55. Control Program Outline, 1960's

A plan for the control of T.B. in Korea, 1960. National T.B. control program - ROK, 1961 Suggestions as to how the control program can be implemented, c.1961 Control of T.B. - 10 year plan, 1961 ROK T.B. Control measures July, 1961 - June, 1962 Chest X-Ray Program - Figures, 1954-1963 Red Cross Hospital Chest Clinic - Report for May, 1963. Fourth Quarterly Report 1963 of T.B. Project - Report of WHO - Western Pacific Region. WHO Report, 1964. 1964 Annual Meeting of the Korean Mission Committee of the UCC, August 23-26. KCWS - T.B. Control Program - Report for December 1, 1965.

56. Unpublished Articles on T.B. in Korea

"The Korea CWS anti-T.B. campaign"; "T.B. Control"; "The Value of Chemotheragy for Active Pulmonary T.B. Cases Treated on Ambulatory Basis in Korea"; "A Brief Report on KCWS chest clinics" RCWS - Pilot T.B. Control Project "The T.B. Problem in Korea" "A Plan for Control of T.B. In Korea" "Mrmorandum on T.B." "The Value of the Tuberculin Test in Detecting T.B. in Patients admitted to Hospital: "Pulmonary T.B. in Korea: "A Rural T.B. Clinic in Korea: Summary of 160 cases" "T.B. Control Project - KCWS -Why were they begun?" "Severance Union Medical College" "The T.B. Problem in Korea - 1957"

57. Unpublished Articles on T.B. in Korea

"KWCS - antiT.B. Campaign" "A Summary of Government Plans for T.B. Control" "The Clinical Report of Oral Antituberculous - Therapy of Ambulatory Pulmonary T.B. Patients" KCWS - Project in the control and Treatment of Pulmonary T.B." "T.B. in Korea - A Control Project", E.B. Struthers "Korea CWS Chest Clinics" "In commeration of the building of 8th Army Memorial Chest Hospital" "National council of the Churches of Christ in U.S. - Asian Department" ICWS - T.B. Control Programme - Report for November, 1965"

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File 58. Unpublished Articles on T.B. in Korea

"T.B. Control Problems and Need in Korea, October 17-

November 4, 1967" "Miscellaneous Gleanings - June 1, 1953" "Editorials - T.B. Control in South Korea" "The 38th Parallel Medical Society of Korea" "Suggestions as to how the T.B. Control Program can be implemented" "T.B. Contacts in Seoul, Korea, 1959" "KCWS Chest Clines"

59. Unpublished Articles - T.B. in Korea

"Home Visiting in the case of Pulmonary T.B." "HOme Visiting and Welfare" - E.B. Sturthers "T.B. Project - Report to KCWS" Personal Narrative Report -Elda Daniel STruthers, 1959 Personal Report for the year 1964 - E.B. Struthers "Morbidity Rates of T.B. Contact and the factors concerned" Informal discussion on public health practices in Korea Charts concerned with T.B. Project and Severance Hospital

60. Work re Houshold contacts projects and Case Histories

61. Various printed articles dealing mainly with T.B. treatment in underdeveloped countries - especially Korea.

Collection of Newspaper Clippings and journal articles dealing primarily with contemporary China.

Newspaper clippings on Korea - C. 1952-1968

1960's

n.d. c. early 1970's

" 1971-1972

" 1973

" 1974 & 1975.

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File 62.

63.

64.

65.

66.

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67.

68. Pamphlets on pre-1949 China - Letter from H.J. Veals, Secretary, West China Mission to Dr. J.H. Arnup, December 3, 1951 Leslie Kilborn - "Our Last Term in China, 1951-1952" Reprint from Chinese Medical Journal October - December 1943 re data on hospitals in occupied China "Fundamentals" Chinese Recorder, April 1924 "Report on Medical Relief for Flood Refugees" Chinese Medical Journal, 1936

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File 69. Miscellaneous Notes and Pamphlets on post-1949 China

Dialogue on "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy" Letter from China, Anna Louise Strong, July 26, 1963 Obituary notice re death of Chou En-lai Canadian China Society (CCS) Notes: November, 1972, March, 1973, January, 1974, June, 1974, November, 1974, May, 1975; Hsinhua News Bulletin, Tuesday, October 16, 1973 Book Review of Tuzo Wilson's Unglazed China Canadian Scientific Delegation to the Prc Short biographies of participants

70. China Notes

# Notes - Division of Overseas Ministries, Winter, 1968, 1969; Spring, 1969; Summer, 1969, Spring, 1975

71. Asian Reports - Various Newsletters

Asian Reports - #55, 57, 58, c. 1974 Peking Review - #34, 40, 41, 1973 "Chinese Enamel", The Auctioneer, March 1969

Part 1 - September, 1968 Part 2 - October, 1968

Speeches by Pierre Trudeau and Chou En-lai on the occasion of the banquets in honour of Trudeau's visit to China, October, 1973

72. Bowes, John Z. - "Imperialism and Medical Education in China"

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BOX 5 Treatment of Kala-Aazar in China - Information on Cheeloo University - Medical Passport System

File 73. Miscellaneous medical articles, some dealing with T.B.

74. Miscellaneous medical articles

75.

76.

77. Articles on Acupuncture

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File 78. Articles on Cheeloo University

79. Articles on the Medical Passport System

80. Articles and Notes on Kala-Azar in China

BOX 6

' Articles on T.B. Prevention; Survey of 1950's Chest clinics; Effectiveness of Chest X-Rays; Answers to Questionnaires

81.

82. Same as in file 81, for the 1960's



85. Various printed articles on breast cancer mortality rates under control programmes, 1900 - 1947

86. Struther's personal documents and awards

87. Day Book, notes re tuberculosis

88. Cheeloo University, date calendars, 1935-1937

89. Epidemiology of Diseases of Naval Importance in China (W.W.II)

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90. War Department Bulletins - Medical and Sanitary Data for Formosa and South-East China

91. War Department Bulletins - Medical and Sanitary Data for itorea and North East China

92. various articles re medicine

93. A.M.A. Journal for April, 1958

94. Articles re tuberculosis in Korea, 1959-1961

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95. Articles re tuberculosis, 1960's

96. Articles re tuberculosis

97. Life articles re China, 1970's

98. Articles re tuberculosis; The Medical Graduate, issue, 1974

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BOX 7 (contihued)

File 99 Tuberddlosis

10d; Tuberculosis

101 r TufAr'atilosia

81;162C

in Ontario, 1968

Prevention, Annual Report, 1968 - Ontario

Prevention, Annual Report, 1969 - Ontario

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