Health
“Board Ponders Health
Measure for Labor Camps.” Fresno Bee 1937 September 2: 1.
“California Is Housing Its Aged and Indigent in
Large Modern Hospitals.” Wasco News January 1, 1930: 2.
California State Department
of Public Health. “The Health of
Transient and Migratory Laborers in California.” Weekly Bulletin
(California State Department of Public Health 16(32) September 4, 1937: 125-31.
California State Department of Public Health. Bureau
of Child Hygiene. "A Study of the Health of 1,000 Children of Migratory
Agricultural Laborers in California." Report of the Migratory Demonstration,
July, 1936-June, 1937.Sacramento, CA?, 1937.
_____. “Trailing Child and Maternal Health
into California Migrant Agricultural Camps." Report of the Second Year of the
Migratory Demonstration,
July 1937-June 1938.” Sacramento, CA?, 1938.
Canter, Ester A. “California ‘Renovates’ the Dust
Bowler.” Hygeia 18(5) May 1940: 420-23.
Camp nurse’s attempt to educate “dust bowlers” about
personal hygiene and preventative medicine as she contends with home remedies
and superstition. For many “dust bowlers” life in the migratory labor camp
was an improvement over the poverty and starvation they experienced since
leaving their farms in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas. Condescending
article portraying the ignorance of migrants toward health care and nutrition. Reflects the
prevailing view of migrants
as shiftless and illiterate.
“Care of Transients this Winter to be Along Broader
Lines.” Shafter Progress September
1, 1933: 1.
Dickie, Walter M.
“Health of the Migrant.” Weekly Bulletin (California State
Department of Public Health) 17 (June 18, 1938): 81-7.
“Health Problems Arising from Migrant [?].” Bakersfield
Californian September 9, 1939:
??.
Kinberg, Olof.
“On So-Called Vagrancy: A Medico-Sociological Study.” Journal
of Criminal Law and Criminology
24 (1934): 409-27.
Landis, Paul H. “Social Aspects of Farm Labor in the Pacific States.” Rural
Sociology December 1938:
421-33.
Discusses the problem of transient farm labor in the
Pacific coast states citing two Farm Security Administration (FSA) measures that
helped improve the social and economic conditions of these agricultural
workers: (1) a socialized health program that would benefit the general welfare
of farm laborers; and (2) the development of a chain of sanitary farm labor
campus financed mainly by the federal government that improved their standard
of living.
Mann, Wanda D.
“Migrant Nursing.” The Pacific Coast Journal of Nursing 37(11) November 1941: 658-60.
Mann discusses health conditions among agricultural
migrant families who have emigrated from the “dust-bowl” area of the United
States. Her work with the FSA’s
Agricultural Workers Health & Medical Association in California is the
focus of this article.
“Migration and Communicable Diseases.” Weekly
Bulletin (California State Department of Public Health) 17(19) June 4, 1938.
“Oases for Health.” Time January 15, 1940: 40.
Sears, Mary. "The Nurse and the Migrant."
The Pacific Coast Journal of
Nursing 37(3) March 1941: 144-6.
Personal account of a nurse’s two year experience
working in the migrant field for the FSA’s Agricultural Workers Health and
Medical Association in California and Arizona.
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“The Flat-Tired, Flat-Tired-People.” Californians 7(2)
1989: 14-17, 58.
Author recalls her experiences working as a public
health nurse for the FSA assisting migrant families in California from
1938-1944.
“Sharp Increase in Patronage of County Hospitals.” Wasco
News July 21, 1933: 2.
“Starvation in Cotton Camps Seen in Survey by
Governor.” Arizona Daily Star
March 22, 1939: 3 E0A.
Governor Stanford and Dr. Coit I. Hughes, state
superintendent of public health, inspected the Waddell and other camps located
several miles outside of Phoenix.
The Governor sent nurses, food and medical supplies, to aid the pea
pickers living in these camps.
According to health authorities, many of the residents were “on the
verge of starvation” and suffering from smallpox, measles, whooping cough and
typhoid fever. [See article
reporting on the pea pickers protesting at the state capital a week earlier.]
