Maternal and Child Health History
Special Collections of the MCH Library
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Owing to their age, many of these materials are not available electronically; limited quantities of photocopies and loans are available from the MCH Library. Library staff can help identify other sources that can provide access to the information. All materials can be viewed at the MCH Library at Georgetown University. Contact library staff for help with accessing information from other sources or to arrange an appointment to view the materials at the library. |
New! Digitization
Project
The
MCH Library has digitized its Children's Bureau Collection, approximately 450 items
published by the Children's Bureau
between 1912 and 1969 and several additional
items that discuss the history of the
Children's Bureau, ranging from brochures
to short reports to bound volumes. The
MCH Library currently contains these
items in hard copy. These items can be
identified by searching in the sidebar
search window or in the Advanced Search
page using the phrase "Children's
Bureau" (with quotation marks).
Records
of the Children's Bureau 1912-1969
Microfilm collection of 290 reels containing materials from the U.S. National
Archives and Records Administration. The finding aid for this collection, The
Children's Bureau: Documentary sources from the National Archives (Alexandria,
VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1993) lists documents according to their sequence on the
microfilm and provides author, title, date, and sometimes source of the material. Types
of materials include reports, articles, conference
materials, addresses and speeches, government
documents, memoranda, drafts, and other documents. The
aid is divided into six parts: child welfare,
child legislation, Children's Bureau history,
MCH, Children's Bureau Merritt files, and
Children's Bureau chief's
files. There is no subject index.
William
McConway Hiscock Collection on Early and
Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment
Collection of 159 items, primarily reports and articles, published between
1973 and 1982. A bibliography lists the documents by subject categories, including
(1) direct services, such as outreach, support, assessment, diagnosis, treatment,
and continuing care; (2) program management at the state and local levels,
including planning, budgeting, staff development, resource development, marketing
and promotion, quality control, reporting requirements, research, demonstrations,
and evaluation; and (3) program management at the federal level, with categories
similar to those at the state level, as well as financing, policy, and legislation.
Abstracts are included for 124 of the listed items.
Note:
EPSDT has been variously called Early and Periodic
Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment and Early
and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment;
document descriptions in the database reflect
the name used in the document.
Final Reports from the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau
This collection includes over 1,000 final reports of projects funded by the
Maternal and Child Health Bureau, from the 1960s to the present. They are included
in
MCHLine®, the library's catalog, and can be searched using
keywords, author, title, publisher, or date.
Recent reports received in electronic formats (PDF, Word) are also available full-text. The MCH library also holds block grant applications and annual reports from state Title V agencies for the years 1986 through 1996, plus applications for 1998.
Children's
Bureau to Maternal and Child Health Bureau
Name Change
The evolution of the present Maternal and Child
Health Bureau from the Children's Bureau
