Howard, Lewis Hoagland

Mentioned in the 10/10/1933 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. City Health Department representative. Arizona Medical Board record: Lewis H. Howard MD; license issued: 04/20/1929; medical school: UNIV OF MD SCH OF MED, Baltimore, Maryland; graduation date: 06/01/1916. Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 1730 E. 3rd St., Tucson.
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, Feb 1931; 96: 446: Dr. Meade Clyne, Tucson, was recently appointed health officer of Pima County, succeeding Dr. Edward J. Gotthelf, Jr. Dr. Lewis H. Howard was appointed assistant.
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, Jul 1956; 161: 1268: Howard, Lewis Hoagland, Tucson, Ariz.; University of Maryland School of Medicine and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, 1916; an associate member of the American Medical Association; served during World War I; city and county health officer; died in St. Mary's Hospital and Sanatorium April 6, aged 62, of cerebral hemorrhage and hypertension.
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 3, page(s) 300,302,303
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