Arizona Medical Board record: Alvy N. Crain MD; license date: 7/27/1933.
Pima County Medical Society (Tucson, Arizona). Sombrero, November 1984.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “The U.S. Public Health Service sent Dr. A.N. Crain to Tucson in 1930 to set up the first modern integrated Tucson-Pima County Health Department, the only one in the state which unites its city and county health work. Dr. Lewis H. Howard was its director from 1931 until his retirement in 1954.”
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1931; 97: 325: Dr. Lewis H. Howard, who has been city health officer of Tucson since April 1, has been appointed health officer of Pima County, the city and county units being combined. Dr. Howard succeeds Dr. Alvy Nelson Crain, who resigned to become health officer of Maricopa County, with headquarters in Phoenix.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1933; 100: 1260: The sixth annual meeting of the Arizona Public Health Association was held at Tucson, April 17-19, under the presidency of Dr. Alvy N. Crain, Tucson. Speakers included Drs. Frederick T. Foard, Jr., of the U. S. Public Health Service on "Public Health Administration" ; Warren F. Fox, El Centro, Calif., "Public Health in Imperial County" ; Edwin B. Godfrey, San Bernardino, "Function of a County Health Department," and Karl F. Meyer, Ph.D., of the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, San Francisco, "Certain Aspects of Undulant Fever." Speakers at other sessions included Drs. Platt W. Covington of the Rockefeller Foundation and Allen K. Krause, Tucson.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1937; 108: 2045: Appointments to State Health Department. -- Dr. Alvy N. Crain, Phoenix, formerly director of the Maricopa County health unit, has been appointed director of local health administration of the state department of health, succeeding Dr. George A. Hays; Dr. Jack B. Eason, Yuma, has been placed in charge of the bureau of maternal and child health. Dr. Crain graduated at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1913. Dr. Eason graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1930.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1937; 109: 1205: Dr. Jay Dee Dunshee, until recently director of public health of Idaho, has been appointed director of local health administration of Arizona, according to Arizona Public Health News. He succeeds Dr. Alvy N. Crain, Phoenix. Dr. Dunshee formerly served, among other positions, as director of child welfare of Los Angeles, health officer of Pasadena and director of the state health department of California.
JAMA, Jul 1974; 229: 586: CRAIN, Alvy Nelson; Sun City, Ariz; Louisville, 1913; died in the Valley View Community Hospital in Youngtown March 24, aged 91, of cardiac failure and pulmonary congestion.
Pima County Medical Society (Tucson, Arizona). Sombrero, November 1984.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “The U.S. Public Health Service sent Dr. A.N. Crain to Tucson in 1930 to set up the first modern integrated Tucson-Pima County Health Department, the only one in the state which unites its city and county health work. Dr. Lewis H. Howard was its director from 1931 until his retirement in 1954.”
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1931; 97: 325: Dr. Lewis H. Howard, who has been city health officer of Tucson since April 1, has been appointed health officer of Pima County, the city and county units being combined. Dr. Howard succeeds Dr. Alvy Nelson Crain, who resigned to become health officer of Maricopa County, with headquarters in Phoenix.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1933; 100: 1260: The sixth annual meeting of the Arizona Public Health Association was held at Tucson, April 17-19, under the presidency of Dr. Alvy N. Crain, Tucson. Speakers included Drs. Frederick T. Foard, Jr., of the U. S. Public Health Service on "Public Health Administration" ; Warren F. Fox, El Centro, Calif., "Public Health in Imperial County" ; Edwin B. Godfrey, San Bernardino, "Function of a County Health Department," and Karl F. Meyer, Ph.D., of the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, San Francisco, "Certain Aspects of Undulant Fever." Speakers at other sessions included Drs. Platt W. Covington of the Rockefeller Foundation and Allen K. Krause, Tucson.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1937; 108: 2045: Appointments to State Health Department. -- Dr. Alvy N. Crain, Phoenix, formerly director of the Maricopa County health unit, has been appointed director of local health administration of the state department of health, succeeding Dr. George A. Hays; Dr. Jack B. Eason, Yuma, has been placed in charge of the bureau of maternal and child health. Dr. Crain graduated at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1913. Dr. Eason graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1930.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1937; 109: 1205: Dr. Jay Dee Dunshee, until recently director of public health of Idaho, has been appointed director of local health administration of Arizona, according to Arizona Public Health News. He succeeds Dr. Alvy N. Crain, Phoenix. Dr. Dunshee formerly served, among other positions, as director of child welfare of Los Angeles, health officer of Pasadena and director of the state health department of California.
JAMA, Jul 1974; 229: 586: CRAIN, Alvy Nelson; Sun City, Ariz; Louisville, 1913; died in the Valley View Community Hospital in Youngtown March 24, aged 91, of cardiac failure and pulmonary congestion.
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 1, page(s) 442,443, 452; volume 11, page(s) 227
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