Scope and Content: Henry Dexter Chadwick, M.D., was the first superintendent of Westfield State Sanatorium (Mass.), 1908-1929; controller of tuberculosis for Detroit, Mich., 1929-1933; Massachusetts commissioner of public health, 1933-1938; president of the National Tuberculosis Association, 1939-1940, and of the Massachusetts Tuberculosis and Health League, 1940s.  He also served Massachusetts as a member of the Special Commission to Study and Investigate Certain Public Health Matters (Resolves 1947, c 73–also known as the Special Commission on Public Health) and the Governor’s Committee to Study State Hospitals (1953) –Series documents Chadwick’s professional career.
Arrangement: Arranged by subject, thereunder chronologically
Notes: Series documents Chadwick’s professional career. Files contain personal and professional letters sent and received while superintendent at Westfield; consultant reports on tuberculosis programs in Washington, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Richmond, Va.; reports produced while a member of two Massachusetts commissions, the Special Commission on Public Health and the Governor’s Committee to Study State Hospitals; official letter of appointment to the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health; lecture notes; publications file; papers relating to presidency of the Massachusetts Tuberculosis League, including a printed history of the history of tuberculosis; programs of a 1938 testimonial dinner in Chadwick’s honor; letters of congratulation on his ninetieth birthday. Transferred to Archives from Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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