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The series consists of records created by the Inspector of Municipalities between 1910 and 1920 relating to infant protection. It includes correspondence inward and outward of the Inspector of Municipalities related to Children's Aid Societies; monthly statements, annual reports, statutory declarations and expense vouchers of Children's Aid Societies in Vancouver and Victoria, and papers pertaining to Infants' Protection.

In 1897 the British Columbia legislature adopted the "Guardian's Appointment Act" (61 Vict., c. 96) relating to the custody and care of infants. Further, in 1901, the legislature passed the "Children's Protection Act" (1 Ed. 7, c. 9) providing for the incorporation of Children's Aid Societies and for the appointment of a Superintendent. The Provincial Secretary was charged with the administration of this statute and "An Act to Regulate Maternity Boarding Houses, and for the Protection of Infant Children", passed in the same year (1 Ed. 7, c. 29). This latter act required the registration of houses for reception of infants as well as the registration of every infant in the care of such institutions. In 1911 the "Infants Act" was passed consolidating and amending legislation relating to infants (2 Geo. 5, c. 107). In 1918 the "Infants Act" was amended to provide for a Superintendent of Neglected Children who would, among other duties, make annual reports to the Attorney General. Administration of the Act was transferred from the Provincial Secretary to the Attorney General by section 14 of the Act (8 Geo. 5, c. 36) and the Superintendent's first Annual Report was submitted on 30 November 1920.

This series consists of correspondence inward and outward, and interdepartmental memos of the Provincial Secretary, pertaining to provincial mental health care institutions, mothers' pensions, child welfare, and adoption laws from 1918-1926.

Records of the Hearings Committee on Health Insurance including reports of in camera meetings, transcripts of evidence taken at public hearings, briefs submitted to the committee, copies (printed) of Report of the Hearings Committee on Health Insurance, A Plan of Health Insurance for British Columbia, and A Draft Bill on Health insurance.

The series consists of a photograph album created in 1932 by the Provincial Board of Health to document the 1932 outbreak of smallpox in Vancouver. The album contains 47 b&w photographs taken of patients at the Vancouver General Hospital. The photographs are nude shots of 17 individuals, male and female, both adult and children, who either survived or died of smallpox. Strips of paper have been pasted over the eyes and the patients have been identified by initials only in order to provide some privacy. The photographs were taken over several days and show the progress of the disease in several individuals. They are accompanied by case histories of each patient which includes the patient's initials, age, symptoms, vaccination history, history of disease in patient and whether they lived or died. The album also contains two studio portraits of three siblings who did not contract the disease because they had been vaccinated.
The photographs were taken at the Vancouver General Hospital under the direction of A.K. Haywood, M.D., General Superintendent. Copies were sent to Dr. H.E. Young, Provincial Health Officer who had multiple copies of the album made up and sent to Health Officers across Canada and the United States.

The series consists of files kept by Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Henry Esson Young, from 1924 to 1939. The files relate mostly to outbreaks of disease, including smallpox, infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis), plague, trachoma, tick paralysis, psittacosis, and leprosy. The files contain correspondence of the Provincial Health Officer with Medical Health Officers in B.C. and the U.S. Public Health Service about outbreaks of infectious disease, including the 1932 smallpox epidemic in Vancouver and recurring incidents of diphtheria at the Queen Alexandra Solarium. They also include reports relating to lab services.

Correspondence (primarily personal), lecture notes, speech notes, and articles; binders and pamphlets containing information relevant to vital statistics. John Thornton Marshall, born on the 14th of May 1900 in Buckingham, England, immigrated to Canada with his parents in August 1913. Educated in England and Victoria, B.C., Marshall joined the British Columbia Provincial Police as a guard on the 14th of February 1916. He moved to the Provincial Board of Health in 1917 and rose from the position of junior clerk to Inspector of Vital Statistics (1929) and Director of Vital Statistics (1939). In September 1941, Marshall accepted the position of Chief of the Division of Vital Statistics of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics (DBS) . In 1946, he was appointed Chief Administrative Officer of the DBS; the following year, he was promoted to the post of Assistant Dominion Statistician. Prior to his retirement in 1963, Marshall was the Canadian representative on the Population Commission of the Economic and Social Council, United Nations, 1947-1950. In 1949, he was the Fourth Session Chairman of the Committee on Migration. In 1953, he was re-appointed as Canadian representative and in 1955 was Chairman of the Eighth Session. Additionally, Marshall was active in the World Health Organization, 1947-1948, and served as Co-secretary for the Export Committee for Sixth Revision of the International List of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death; in 1955, he was a member of a statistical panel, World Health Organization. An avid sportsman and philatelist, John T. Marshall was also an active member of the Masonic Lodge and served as Past Master of Victoria Columbia #1, British Columbia Registry. His publications include The History of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia, 1871-1970. The Marshall records consists of correspondence 1929-1963, which is primarily of a personal nature, lecture notes, speech notes and articles by Marshall as well as binders and pamphlets which contain material relevant to vital statistics. Three albums of photographs pertaining to the United Nations Population Commission, the World Health Organization, etc., can be found in Visual Records accession 197912-31. Photographs related to the publication The History of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia, 1871-1970 are in Visual Records accessions 198105-7 and 198201-54. John T. Marshall donated the records in 1972. Source: MS Finding Aids Presented by John Marshall, 1972. Finding aid: volume list

Series consists of letters inward and newspaper clippings re construction of Essondale Mental Home and other public buildings.

The fonds consists of 2 letters written to Henry Esson Young and 2 letters of introduction written on behalf of Young. Fonds also includes a b&w mounted photograph of St. Andrews hospital in Atlin BC taken in 1905, which shows Dr. and probably Mrs. Young standing in front of it. There is also a b&w postcard of a bust of "His late Majesty, Edward VII".