See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1919; 72: 1841: MINUTES OF THE SEVENTIETH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, HELD AT ATLANTIC CITY, JUNE 9-13, 1919. ROSTER OF INVITED GUESTS. Surgeon-General Ireland called the roster of invited foreign guests, and as the name of each was called, the introduction was acknowledged. ... China was represented by Drs. S. T. Lee, William Wesley Peter, Chang Ting-Han and Hsu Ming-Shoo.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1937; 109: 1048: Arizona. New General Hospital for Care of Indians. A new $450,000 base hospital for Navajo and Hopi Indians is scheduled for completion November 5 at Fort Defiance. There will be private rooms, wards, isolation wards, a maternity unit, and a nursery with facilities for fourteen patients. According to Dr. William W. Peter, Window Rock, medical director of the Navajo-Hopi areas, the hospital will provide for 130 patients without overcrowding. The Navajo-Hopi reservation of 25,000 square miles is the largest of 199 Indian reservations in twenty-two states. It has a total population of about 45,000 Navajos and 3,000 Hopis. ... According to Southwestern Medicine, the old hospital will be converted into a tuberculosis sanatorium. [photo caption: The new general hospital for Indians.]
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1959; 170: 1215: Peter, William Wesley, Port Republic, Md.; born in Elliston, Ohio, Dec. 1, 1882; Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1910; for years engaged in public health work in China; one of the founders and the director of the China Council on Health Education, with which he served from 1911 to 1926; visiting lecturer at Pennsylvania St. John's University Medical School, Shanghai, from 1920 to 1926 and the Peking Union Medical School, from 1920 to 1926; during World War I served with the Chinese Labor Corps in France; upon his return to America joined the staff of the American Public Health Association as associate secretary; when the Cleanliness Institute in New York was established in 1927, became its health consultant, and in 1929 director of the health service, serving until 1933; the following year appointed medical director for the Navajo Indian Reservation, with headquarters at Albuquerque, N. Mex.; resigned as associate professor of public health and chief of sanitary inspection in the department of health, Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn, in 1945 when he became director of the training division of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, D. C; professorial lecturer of public health, George Washington University, Washington, D. C, 1945-1949; specialist certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine; in 1927 received his doctor of public health from Yale; died in the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, March 31, aged 76.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1919; 72: 1841: MINUTES OF THE SEVENTIETH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, HELD AT ATLANTIC CITY, JUNE 9-13, 1919. ROSTER OF INVITED GUESTS. Surgeon-General Ireland called the roster of invited foreign guests, and as the name of each was called, the introduction was acknowledged. ... China was represented by Drs. S. T. Lee, William Wesley Peter, Chang Ting-Han and Hsu Ming-Shoo.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1937; 109: 1048: Arizona. New General Hospital for Care of Indians. A new $450,000 base hospital for Navajo and Hopi Indians is scheduled for completion November 5 at Fort Defiance. There will be private rooms, wards, isolation wards, a maternity unit, and a nursery with facilities for fourteen patients. According to Dr. William W. Peter, Window Rock, medical director of the Navajo-Hopi areas, the hospital will provide for 130 patients without overcrowding. The Navajo-Hopi reservation of 25,000 square miles is the largest of 199 Indian reservations in twenty-two states. It has a total population of about 45,000 Navajos and 3,000 Hopis. ... According to Southwestern Medicine, the old hospital will be converted into a tuberculosis sanatorium. [photo caption: The new general hospital for Indians.]
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1959; 170: 1215: Peter, William Wesley, Port Republic, Md.; born in Elliston, Ohio, Dec. 1, 1882; Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1910; for years engaged in public health work in China; one of the founders and the director of the China Council on Health Education, with which he served from 1911 to 1926; visiting lecturer at Pennsylvania St. John's University Medical School, Shanghai, from 1920 to 1926 and the Peking Union Medical School, from 1920 to 1926; during World War I served with the Chinese Labor Corps in France; upon his return to America joined the staff of the American Public Health Association as associate secretary; when the Cleanliness Institute in New York was established in 1927, became its health consultant, and in 1929 director of the health service, serving until 1933; the following year appointed medical director for the Navajo Indian Reservation, with headquarters at Albuquerque, N. Mex.; resigned as associate professor of public health and chief of sanitary inspection in the department of health, Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn, in 1945 when he became director of the training division of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, D. C; professorial lecturer of public health, George Washington University, Washington, D. C, 1945-1949; specialist certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine; in 1927 received his doctor of public health from Yale; died in the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, March 31, aged 76.
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