BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 1150 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113 U.S.A. Phone: (734) 764-3482 Fax: (734) 936-1333 http://bentley.umich.edu/ Vaughan, Henry Frieze, 1889-1979. * Henry Frieze Vaughan papers, 1913-1971. * 3 linear ft. Commissioner of the Detroit Department of Health, later dean of the School of Public Health of the University of Michigan. Correspondence and manuscripts of articles and speeches; papers detailing his activities with the American Public Health Association, the Association of Schools of Public Health, the Detroit Department of Health, the Michigan Department of Health, and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Finding aid available in library ----------- 1328. University of Michigan, School of Public Health Records, 1917-1979. 45 linear feet. Background: Foundations lie in the 1887 establishment of the department of hygiene; officially founded under the deanship of Henry Frieze Vaughan, 1941. Summary: Dean's files of Henry F. Vaughan, 1941-1959, Myron Wegman, and Richard Remington; files concerning the Association of Schools of Public Health; the Michigan public health study of Carl E. Buck; the school's Program in Public Health Nursing; and miscellanea, including materials concerning public health in Detroit. Repository: Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. ----------------------- http://umhistory.dc.umich.edu/mort/central/Observatory%20Street/Public%20Health/henry_frieze.html -------------------------------- Moron Marriages. Detroit's Commissioner of Health, Dr. Henry F. Vaughan, recommended: "Those who show themselves to be morons should be desexed before they reach the reproductive stage. Then they should be encouraged to marry, because marriage tends to stabilize and fix the location of those people. The State could afford to pay those of this class a small annuity so long as they complied with the law." Time Magazine Monday, Jan. 16, 1928 -------------------- Because women were concerned with the quality of their families' food, clubwomen mounted clean-food campaigns, in which they experienced varying degrees of success. Of particular concern was meat inspection because federal inspection was required only at the four (out of a total of forty-four) meat-packing houses in Michigan that did interstate business. Detroit's health commissioner, Henry F. Vaughan, perhaps making a point, estimated that 50 percent of Detroiters are meat that had not been inspected. He supported a plan whereby veterinarians would inspect the meat. (72) Although the DFWC shared Vaughan's concerns about meat inspection and campaigned for legislation to require it, there was no state meat-inspection law until 1926. Municipal housekeeping: the political activities of the Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs in the 1920s. From: Michigan Historical Review | Date: 3/22/2004 | Author: Morris-Crowther, Jayne ------------------------- Young & lithe enough to be worth a dime of any man's dance money, Helen Abney, 1 8, taxi-danced three January nights running in a thronged Detroit hall until she was ready to drop. When she could not raise her head from her pillow one morning, she thought she was just tired. When chills & fever racked her and her bones ached, she thought she had grippe. A rash breaking out on her face suggested scarlet fever or chickenpox. When the red spots became elevated and exuded pus, there remained no doubt that dancing Helen Abney was afflicted with smallpox. Detroit suffered a thoroughgoing scare, for closely associated with Helen Abney for three nights were 100 other young & lithe girls who taxi-danced for a living and a thousand men who danced with them. Few of the dancers dared feel safe against smallpox contagion. When schoolchildren, some had evaded the usually compulsory vaccination against this comparatively rare disease.* Practically none of the others knew that vaccination may provide protection for only five years. By means of newspapers and radio Detroit's Health Commissioner Henry F. Vaughan last week explained all this to Detroit's citizens and plenty of them got vaccinated or revaccinated, while doctors tried to keep poxy Dancer Helen Abney from being abhorrently pocked for life. * But smallpox is by no means eradicated from the U. S. with 459 new cases last week. Tiem Magazine Monday, Feb. 07, 1938 Dr. Henry Freeze Vaughan, former Commissioner of Health in Detroit and the son of Victor Vaughan, was named the first dean of the School of Public Health in 1941, and served until he retired in 1959. The building was named in his honor in 1971. Trustee, The W.K. Kellogg Foundation: 1933-1972 Our Mission The W.K. Kellogg Foundation supports children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel vulnerable children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society. Our Vision We envision a nation that marshals its resources to assure that all children have an equitable and promising future - a nation in which all children thrive. Our Values * We believe in helping people help themselves through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations. * We believe all people have the inherent capacity to effect change in their lives, in their organizations, and in their communities. We respect individuals and value their collective interests, strengths, and cultures. * We believe stewardship requires fidelity to the spirit and to the intent of the founder, and the wise use of resources. We believe in being responsible, prudent, selfless, and exercising good judgment. * We believe innovation of thought and action leads to enduring and positive change in both formal and informal systems. * We value integrity of purpose and action, and believe it is essential to all of our affairs. Time Magazine Monday, Mar. 07, 1938 Last week Detroit's Health Commissioner Henry Frieze Vaughan asked his city council to offer a bounty of three cents for every dead rat delivered to the Department of Public Works (garbage). Special employes of that department killed 900,000 Detroit rats last year, expect to kill 2,000,000 rats this year. But Health Commissioner Vaughan wanted to get the 2.000.000 killed in a great hurry, for an epidemic of infective jaundice was spreading in Detroit. Twenty-two children had contracted the disease. One, Donald Siegle, had died. A serpentine germ, Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, causes the disease, affects the spleen and liver, yellows the eyes and skin, raises temperature, is not often fatal. Donald Siegle's pet dog had an attack of jaundice a fortnight before the child died, and may have transmitted the germ. But in the beginning, Dr. Vaughan knew, rats were responsible. Every tenth rat in any community harbors Leptospira icterohemorrhagiae, with no inconvenience to itself, but with grave trouble for man or beast who eats, drinks or touches food fouled by it.