Overview of the Collection
SUNY Upstate Medical University766 Irving AvenueSyracuse, NY 13210
Woodford, Norman L., 1898-1985
The Norman L. Woodford MD Papers
1908-1985
3.75 linear feet
This collection contains the papers of
Norman L. Woodford, who graduated from Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1921
and was a Health Officer and Coroner of Cayuga County. The collection has three series:
Board of Health, Business, and Writings.
FIC2017.0011
Collection materials are in English.
Biographical Note
Norman Luther Woodford (1898-1985) was born in Marcellus and served in World War I
before graduating from Syracuse University with a BS in 1919 and MD in 1921. His
internship was at the Hospital of the Good Shepherd in Syracuse and, in 1922, he
established a private practice at Union Springs and married Helen E. Welsh, with whom he
had four daughters: Sarah Jean, Claire Marian, Norma Agnes, and Mary Elizabeth. After
1924, he was the Health Officer for several towns in Cayuga County, including Aurelius,
Sennett, Fleming, Springport, and Union Springs. From 1944 to 1968, he served as the
coroner for Cayuga County and was a member of the staffs of Mercy Hospital and Auburn
City Hospital. Dr. Woodford was the Union Springs School doctor from 1930 to 1968 and
was a member of the Union Springs Board of Education from 1931 to 1955. His memberships
included the American Medical Association, the New York State Medical Society, and the
Cayuga County Medical Society, Past Vice President.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the papers of Norman L. Woodford, who graduated from Syracuse
University College of Medicine in 1921 and was a Health Officer and Coroner of Cayuga
County. There are three series in this collection.
Board of Health: this documentation ranges from the 1910s to 1980s from the service of
Emmett Grant Fish and Norman Woodford for the Board of Health and contains receipts,
correspondence, examinations, referrals, reports, codes and regulations, registrations,
inspections, forms, applications, publications, permits, newspaper clippings, notebooks,
record books, and other items.
Business: these materials include receipts, checks, bills, and insurance information
from the 1920s to 1950s.
Writings: this series has the notebooks of Norman Woodford from his studies at Syracuse
University College of Medicine.
Arrangement of the Collection
The Norman L. Woodford MD Papers have been arranged into three series.
Separated Material
Dozens of books from Dr. Woodford have been removed to the rare books collection.
Subject and Genre Headings
Fish, Emmett G., 1877-1922
Woodford, Norman L., 1898-1985
Child labor
Communicable diseases
Families
Influenza
Insurance
Medical education
Springport (N.Y. : Town)
Syracuse University, College of Medicine
Tuberculosis
Union Springs (N.Y.)
X-rays
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Use Restrictions
Written permission must be obtained from the Archives and Special Collections of the SUNY Upstate
Health Sciences Library and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations,
excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
The Norman L. Woodford MD Papers, Archives and Special Collections in the Health Sciences Library,
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Acquisition Information
Gift of Norma Agnes Woodford Ziegler and Emilie McCardell, 1998.
Inventory
Board of Health
Receipts, correspondence, and examinations, referrals, and reports on
patients and x-rays.
1921-1931
Box 1
3 folders
Receipts from L.V. Doremus Rexall Store Pharmacist in Union Springs and
correspondence on patient bills.
1923-1934
Box 1
Reports from clinics and all types of blank forms.
1927
1932-1935
undated
Box 2
State department of health bulletin and extracts, registrations,
inventory forms, and codes and regulations.
1914
1922-1984
Box 2
Inspections and correspondence on nuisances and abatements, receipts,
and examinations, referrals, and reports on patients and x-rays.
1930-1935
Box 2
Consulting and hospital examinations, referrals, correspondence, and
reports on patients, electrocardiograms, and x-rays.
1957-1964
Boxes 2 and 3
2 folders
Reports and correspondence on tuberculosis and chest examinations from
state clinic.
1927-1929
Box 3
Blank forms, reports, correspondence, applications for licenses and
permits, health publications, and codes and regulations.
1923
1927
1929
1934-1935
Box 3
Health reports, correspondence, notices, notes, newspaper clippings,
codes and regulations, and permits and forms, particularly on child labor and
employment.
1910-1922
Box 3
Health officer monthly reports, bulletins, memos, correspondence,
permits, certificates, procedures, and codes and regulations.
1948-1961
Box 4
2 folders
Board of Health correspondence, codes and regulations, publications,
bulletins, and notices, including influenza epidemic poster with influenza mask
and 1919 film “Some Wild Oats.”
1914-1921
Box 4
2 folders
Newspaper clippings on audits, vital records, trustee reports, and
communicable diseases.
1909-1914
Box 4
Sanitary record sheets from the department of health of Union
Springs.
1910
Box 5
Report book on meetings of board of health.
1927-1928
1930
1932
1935
1939
1942
1944-1946
1948-1949
Box 5
Account and remedies notebook.
1919-1921
undated
Box 5
Meeting notes from the Consolidated Board of Health for Springport and
Union Springs.
1919
1921-1925
1955
Box 5
State of New York Workmen’s Compensation Board forms.
undated
Box 5
Reports of examination of consolidated health district for the town of
Springport and milk permit.
1953
1955
1958
Box 5
Insurance, workmen’s compensation, and milk permit forms.
1953-1955
Box 5
State of New York Department of Mental Hygiene forms, correspondence,
and report of examination of consolidated health district for the town of
Springport.
1957-1961
Box 5
Obituary of Norman Woodford, public broadside notice on communicable
diseases from health officer, and various publications and circulars from the
US Department of Labor Children’s Bureau, the US Public Health Service Treasury
Department, the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University,
and the New York State Department of Health Division of Child Hygiene, Division
of Publicity and Education, and Division of Communicable Diseases on prenatal
care, babies, children, families, communicable diseases, infections, farm
sanitation, vaccinations, water, and milk, food, and bottle
feeding.
1915-1921
1985
undated
Box 5
Codes and regulations, correspondence, notices, circulars, press
releases, tuberculosis examinations, and State of New York Department of Health
and Division of Maternity, Infancy, and Child Hygiene licenses, permits,
reports, and surveys with instructions.
1914
1922-1928
Box 6
Codes and regulations, and public health clippings, publications, and
circulars.
1915-1922
Box 6
Forms, waivers, notes, and public health clippings, publications,
posters, certificates, and circulars, including health index of pupils and
school medical inspection information.
1915-1917
1921-1922
Box 6
Day book and accounts ledger from Emmett G. Fish, M.D.
1908-1919
Box 6
Record book of the health officer for communicable diseases with
correspondence.
1934-1942
1948
Box 6
Record book of the health officer for communicable diseases with
correspondence, registrations of deaths occurring without medical attendance,
and permits issued to milk dealers.
1931-1947
Box 7
Record book of the health officer for communicable diseases with record
of tuberculosis, complaints and nuisances, property owners of Union Springs,
registration of deaths occurring without medical attendance, cases committed
for insanity, inspection of public buildings and school houses, permits issued
to milk dealers, permits issued for labor camps, accounts of expenses, accounts
of supplies, accounts of miscellaneous, and accounts of
vaccinations.
1909-1932
Box 7
Business
Fire, life, health, car, house, disability, and accident
insurance.
1924-1939
1942
1947
1952-1955
Boxes 7 and 8
Receipts, checks, and bills for paid items and accounts.
1922-1934
Box 9
Writings
Medical school notebook with lecture and laboratory notes and
sketches.
1919
Box 8
Medical school notebook with lecture and laboratory notes and sketches
from physics and pathology.
1919
Box 8
Medical school notebook with lecture and laboratory notes and
sketches.
1919
Box 8
Medical school laboratory and experiment notebook with notes, graphs,
and sketches.
1918
Box 8
Medical school notebook with lecture notes and sketches indexed by name
of professor with subjects: obstetrics, medicine, pediatrics, therapeutics and
dietetics, medical clinic, surgery, and recipes for remedies.
1919-1921
Box 8