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1922

Following discovery of asymptomatic heart disease in NYC schoolchildren and WW I recruits, AMA officially sanctions periodic health examinations (Fye 2, 63). Sullivan arrives at Sheppard-Pratt Hospital, outside Baltimore, where he became director of clinical research in 1925 and designed his “Sullivan’s Ward” of male homosexuals in 1928 or 1929 (Wake II).