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Native American Health Center

WEBIn 1972, the Native American Health Center (NAHC) was opened in San Francisco on 56 Julian Avenue to provide accessible, culturally competent health services to Native …

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Ed Roberts: The Father of Independent Living

WEBRoberts, who suffered from polio and had to use an iron lung, is known as the “Father of Independent Living” for his accomplishments fighting for accessibility in Berkeley, across …

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San Francisco’s Free Emergency Services: Gone and Forgotten

WEBThe one-story Park Emergency Aid Station built in 1902 served in that role until 1978, managing to continue as an ambulance station until 1991. The building is a remnant of a …

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Public Health and Epidemics in late 19th/Early 20th Century San

WEBIn City of Plagues Susan Craddock covers the history of epidemic disease in San Francisco from about 1860-1940. Through most of the 19th century, before germ …

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19th Century Medical Self-Help

WEBThe dispensary was to give free advice and medicine to indigent clinic patients; the hospital was to consist of twenty-five beds for use by both clinic and paying patients. The …

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Chinese Hospital: History and Foundation

WEBOne example was rebuilding the Tung Wah Dispensary into the Chinese Hospital. The hospital’s construction, which was completed in 1925, was largely funded by community …

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Displacement and Trauma: A Public Health Crisis

WEBIn addition to housing affordability, inadequate housing can have adverse effects on public health. Redevelopment, renovations, or conversions of residential property can result in …

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19th Century Medical Self-Help, Part II

WEBThe result was the Tung Wah Dispensary which opened in 1900 at 828 Sacramento Street. The dispensary, which employed both Western trained physicians and Chinese …

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The Medical Industry

WEBMary's and UCSF were the two largest hospitals of their type west of the Mississippi (UCSF was the largest university hospital; St. Mary's, the largest religious hospital). Both were …

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1918 Flu in SF: A Closer Look

WEBOn September 23, 1918, the first Spanish Flu case in San Francisco was diagnosed. Dr. William C. Hassler of the City Health Office, who oversaw San Francisco’s efforts to …

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University Mound Ladies Home

WEBAlthough Lick had the resources, the idea for the University Mound Ladies Home came from a woman named Mary Staples, whose lawyer husband assisted Lick in the writing of his …

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AIDS and San Francisco’s Queer Community

WEBThese maps showing AIDS infection rates from a report done by the City of San Francisco’s Department of Public Health on HIV/AIDS in San Francisco between 1981 and 2000 …

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Bayview/Hunter's Point Toxic Tour

WEBBayview/Hunter's Point has historically served as a dumping ground for nearly one-third of San Francisco’s toxic waste sites. This predominately low to very-low income community …

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Fillmore Redevelopment

WEBAerial of the Fillmore in the early 1970s. Photo: SFRDA via SF Public Library, aaz-0828. Redevelopment was started early in WWII when future planning commissioners Morgan …

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ALCATRAZ Proclamation

WEBThe proclamation of the Indians of All Tribes who occupied Alcatraz from November 1969 to June 1971: To the Great White Father and All His People: We, the native Americans, re …

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Frigging (Mad) in the Rigging

WEBWinters was placed in an isolation cell at San Francisco General Hospital's psychiatric ward. Winters's free performance at the Balclutha capped a series of increasingly bizarre …

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Womens Liberation Changed Medicine

WEBThe first photograph on the first page in the very first movement-published issue of Our Bodies Ourselves shows women sitting on the floor in a circle, in a consciousness …

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Inside Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's Life in San Francisco

WEBFrida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived in the studio of sculptor Ralph Stackpole, on Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Photo: Paul A. Juley/Archives of American Art, …

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Patient No More: 1977 Occupation of Federal Offices in San …

WEBBeginning April 5, 1977, a group of 100 people, many with disabilities, began a sit-in protest at San Francisco’s Federal Offices. Protesters hoped to force the final signature on …

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