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 League, 1940s.  He also served Massachusetts as a member of the Special Commission on Public Health and the Governor’s Committee to Study State Hospitals.
Notes: Photographs document various phases of Chadwick’s career. Images include those of Chadwick himself; Maybury Sanatorium in Detroit; colleagues in Massachusetts, including Dr. Alton Pope, commissioner of public health; a 1938 testimonial dinner in Chadwick’s honor; and activities of the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health such as Massachusetts Hospital School graduation and the chest x-ray van sponsored by the Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control. For Chadwick’s photographs of Westfield State Sanatorium see: Massachusetts. Division of Sanatoria and Tuberculosis Control. Photographs of sanatoriums ((M-Ar)1353X). Transferred to Archives from Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control), 1984
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