Dunshee, Jay Dee

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.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1956; 160: 1343: Dunshee, Jay Dee, Phoenix, Ariz.; born in Milton, Iowa, Dec. 30, 1884; State University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, 1908; served in France during World War I; past-president of the Southern California Society for Mental Hygiene; for many years member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles and Pasadena Child Guidance Clinic; fellow of the American Public Health Association; director of child welfare in Los Angeles from 1921 to 1926; health officer of the city of Pasadena from 1929 to 1934, when he became director of the California State Department of Public Health, serving until 1935; in 1935 became public health adviser in the department of public welfare of Idaho and later director of the division of public health and medical director of state mental institutions; from 1937 to 1944 director of local health administration and communicable disease control in the Arizona Department of Health; in 1945 served as principal medical officer at the Poston Relocation Center in western Arizona; died Jan. 28, aged 71, of myocardial infarction and coronary thrombosis.