Salsbury, Clarence Grant

1886-1980.
Superintendent of Ganado Mission (1927-1950) and founder of the Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1930.
Director of the Arizona State Department of Health. Founder and first president in 1939 of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association.
Mentioned in the 1954-03-04-11 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Dr. E.M. Hayden, President of the Arizona Medical Association, said that he had received two telephone calls today from Phoenix, one from Bob Carpenter and one from Dr. D.W. Melick, and another at around 5: P.M. from Dr. Salsbury, Director of the Arizona State Department of Health. Dr. Melick told him that there was quite a furore raised in Phoenix about the polio vaccine because of an article which appeared in the New England Medical magazine which was critical of it. ... [Dr. Salsbury] has talked with Salk personally, and talked with Dublin of the Foundation, and, as far as can be gathered, there has been no untoward reaction....”
Arizona Medical Board record: Clarence G. Salsbury MD; license date: 1/19/1957; medical school: BOSTON COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS; graduation date: 06/11/1913.
Name also appears as “Salisbury” in the minutes.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Watts TD. Ariz Med. 1972 May;29(5):418-23. Clarence G. Salsbury, M.D.

Memoir: Salsbury, Clarence Grant. The Salsbury story; a medical missionary's lifetime of public service. University of Arizona Press [1969].
See also: C.B. Salsbury, Forty Years in the Desert – A History of Ganado Mission 1901-1940, (Board of National Missions of the Presbyterian Church, USA).
See also: National Historic Landmark Nomination: Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Ganado Mission
http://www.nps.gov/nhl/Fall08Nominations/Sage%20Memorial.pdf

J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1957; 163: 290: Arizona. Conference on Coccidioidomycosis. The Arizona State Department of Health announces that a conference on coccidioidomycosis will be held at the Phoenix Public Library Auditorium in Phoenix, Feb. 11-13. The sessions will open with remarks by Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, commissioner, Arizona State Department of Health, Phoenix, and Dr. Robert J. B. Anderson, chief, U. S. Public Health Service, Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Ga. The following panels have been scheduled for Tuesday: Ecology of Coccidioides Immitis; Immunological Studies on Coccidioidomycosis; and Coccidiodomycosis as an Armed Forces Problem. A motion picture film, "Coccidioidomycosis -- Its Epidemiologic and Clinical Aspects," by Drs. Roger O. Egeberg, director, Los Angeles County Hospital, and Libero Ajello, Ph.D., U. S. Public Health Service, Chamblee, Ga., will be shown Monday at 4:15 p. m. Dr. Egeberg will serve as chairman of the opening session Monday morning and Chester W. Emmons, Ph.D., U. S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md., will be chairman of the afternoon session. Chairmen of the Tuesday sessions will be Dr. Charles E. Smith, dean, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. H. Gilbert Crecelius, director of laboratories, Arizona State Department of Health, Phoenix. On Wednesday the chairmen will be Dr. Peter R. Meis, chief, professional services, U. S. Air Force, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, and Dr. Anderson.
JAMA, Apr 1981; 245: 1481: SALSBURY, Clarence G., 94, Phoenix, Ariz; College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1913; died Sept 27, 1980.