1929

70% of physicians in U.S. have some type of hospital affiliation (Stevens, 145). Dedication of William H. Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins (Davis, 98). NYC Diphtheria Prevention Commission launches massive public health campaign: “the highly visible and focused health campaign against diphtheria filled the void created by the failure of organized medicine, the city, and private philanthropy to fully mobilize against diphtheria. . . In this campaign, as in other Progressive Era reform programs related to children’s health, maternal ignorance was blamed rather than the failure of private medicine or the state in providing preventive health care for all children” (Hammonds, 191ff; quote at 193; J. Baker, 200).