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Listen: The Folk ProgramDr. W. Stanley Hanson with Seminole children at a temporary camp in Immokalee, Florida.
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Collection
Series 904, Midwife program files, 1924-1975 ; Box 4, FF7
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Parasitic diseases
Helminthiasis
Hookworm disease
Floods
Refugee camps
Refugees
Muskogean Indians--Florida--Collier County--Immokalee
Seminole Indians--Florida--Collier County--Immokalee
Seminole children--Florida--Collier County--Immokalee
Medical personnel--Florida--Collier County--Immokalee
Physicians--Florida--Collier County--Immokalee
Indian agents
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
The Board initiated a midwife licensing program in 1931 to reduce infant mortality and to promote maternal and child health.
Accompanying note: "Big Cypress flooded and forced them out. Little Buck Cypress has hookworm advising his white friend to see a physician and get hookworm medicine."
Biographical Note
W. Stanley Hanson (1883-1945), dubbed "the White Medicine Man," was a trusted advisor to the Seminole-Miccosukee Indians from the early part of the 20th century until his death in 1945.
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