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Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare
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City Health Department, Annual Reports

Annual reports of the Department of Health for the years 1917-1921. Provides information and statistics on Department initiatives and public health within the City more generally, including diseases (including the “Spanish Influezna” or “Spanish Flu” outbreak), inoculations, education campaigns, food quality, scavenging and waste disposal, deaths, and general saniation. Also includes information about budgets and finances within the Department.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Forms part of Fonds 1. The duties of the Committee on Public Health and Welfare were: to consider and report to Council on matters pertaining to public health, sanitation, licensing, public markets and weigh houses, comfort stations, and some library matters; to report to Council on the work of the Health Department after its formation in 1900; to act as an agent for the Dominion and/or Provincial governments; to liaise with agencies outside of Winnipeg that received or provided services; and to assist persons on social assistance to find employment.

The minutes, communications and reports of the Committee on Public Health and Welfare and the City of Winnipeg Health Department trace decision making, program administration and fiscal accountability of the City for the provision of services under Committee jurisdiction.

The records consist of three sub-series:

Sub-Series 1:Minutes, 1876-1971

Sub-Series 2:Committee on Public Health and Welfare Communications, 1874-1971. Files arranged variously in chronological or file number order.

Sub-Series 3:Reports, Monthly and Annual, Health Department, 1908-1968.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Communications

Forms part of Series 1. Subseries consists of all surviving correspondence directed toward the Committee on Public Health and Welfare. The correspondence dates from the first year of the City of Winnipeg's incorporation, 1874, until its final year as a unique entity, 1971. The correspondence covers a wide variety of topics including matters relating to health and welfare and the Health Department after it was formed in 1900, but also the formation and management of markets, bath houses and comfort stations; library operations and staffing; licensing issues and inspections; complaints about noise, smoke and other nuisances; and, Health Department staff appointments, requests for leave and general staffing issues.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Housing Situation

Correspondences and reports to and from the Committee on Public Health, the City's Health Department, and others related to housing within the City Winnipeg.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

List of applicants to Health Department

A letter from the Clerk of the Health Committee to J.H. Pearson, Chief Health Inspector, listing people who had applied for jobs after the General Strike had begun.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

List of applicants to Health Department

A list of applicants for positions in the Health Department and the status of their employment after having signed their applications. Many either left quickly after starting or did not show up.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

List of applicants to Health Department

A letter from the Clerk of the Health Committee to the Committee on Finance, listing people who had applied for jobs in the Health Department after the General Strike had begun.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Photographs tracking outbreak of typhoid

An album of photographs taken by the Public Health Department tracking the outbreak of typhoid from 1905 to 1908 (though at least 1 photograph is from 1909). Photos consist of box closets and the condition of residences .

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Report of the Department of Health for 1917

Annual report of the Department of Health for the year 1917. Provides information and statistics on Department initiatives and public health within the City more generally, including diseases, inoculations, education campaigns, food quality, scavenging and waste disposal, deaths, and general saniation. Also includes information about budgets and finances within the Department.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Report of the Department of Health for 1918

Annual report of the Department of Health for the year 1918. Provides information and statistics on Department initiatives and public health within the City more generally, including diseases (including the “Spanish Influenza” or “Spanish Flu” outbreak), inoculations, education campaigns, food quality, scavenging and waste disposal, deaths, and general saniation. Also includes information about budgets and finances within the Department.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Report of the Department of Health for 1919

Annual report of the Department of Health for the year 1919. Provides information and statistics on Department initiatives and public health within the City more generally, including diseases (including the “Spanish Influenza” or “Spanish Flu” outbreak), inoculations, education campaigns, food quality, scavenging and waste disposal, deaths, and general saniation. Also includes information about budgets and finances within the Department.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Report of the Department of Health for 1920

Annual report of the Department of Health for the year 1920. Provides information and statistics on Department initiatives and public health within the City more generally, including diseases (including the “Spanish Influenza” or “Spanish Flu” outbreak), inoculations, education campaigns, food quality, scavenging and waste disposal, deaths, and general saniation. Also includes information about budgets and finances within the Department.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Report of the Department of Health for 1921

Annual report of the Department of Health for the year 1921. Provides information and statistics on Department initiatives and public health within the City more generally, including diseases, inoculations, education campaigns, food quality, scavenging and waste disposal, deaths, and general saniation. Also includes information about budgets and finances within the Department.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

Report of the Division of Communicable Diseases for June, 1919

A report by the Health Department, Communicable Diseases Division for June, 1919, submitted to A.J. Douglas, Medical Health Officer. Statistics are listed for various diseases and the operational difficulties caused by the General Strike are addressed.

Winnipeg (Man.). Committee on Public Health and Welfare

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