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Linear feet:  3 Linear Feet (1 oversize box)

Abstract:  This collection contains materials from the brief period, 1909-1911, when the University of Nashville and the University of Tennessee operated a joint medical school in Nashville.  Their teaching hospital was the Tennessee Hospital located at 614 Broadway in Nashville.  The materials include patient information, operating procedures, and names of doctors.  Some of the records are largely administrative and cover payments received, supply inventories, and employees wages.

Administrative Information

Statement of Provenance:  Collection was found in the backlog.

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Biographical Note/Information:  The medical department of the University of Tennessee had its roots in the 1850s.  During this time two doctors began a medical school in Nashville and associated themselves with the University of Nashville.  In the 1870s the Nashville Medical College opened its doors and quickly became affiliated with the University of Tennessee.  In 1878 the Nashville Medical College organized a Dental department.  By 1909, Nashville boasted three medical programs and the trustee at the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Nashville considered consolidation of their medical units.  Vanderbilt was unable to agree on consolidation, however, the other two institutions combined their programs to become the Medical School of the University of Nashville and the University of Tennessee.  The three-year plan called for the erection of a new hospital in Nashville to replace the Tennessee Hospital located at 614 Broadway.  The new teaching hospital would operate in accordance with the American Medical Association, and allowed students to receive their degrees from either institution.  The medical unit operated during the 1909-1910 school year, but under severe handicaps.  The arrangement proved to be difficult as the construction of the new hospital was delayed and the University of Nashville was already in significant debt.  Secondly, in 1910, Abraham Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, visited Nashville and declared that with the exception of Vanderbilt all the other Tennessee medical schools were worthless.  By 1911, the General Assembly rejected funding for the joint endeavor and as a result the new hospital was never built and the University of Nashville sold all of their equipment to the University of Tennessee.  To avoid the difficulties with maintaining medical programs in Nashville, in 1911 the University of Tennessee opened a Medical College in Memphis.

Scope and Content Note:  This collection contains materials from the brief period, 1909-1911, when the University of Nashville and the University of Tennessee operated a joint medical school in Nashville.  Their teaching hospital was the Tennessee Hospital located at 614 Broadway in Nashville.  The materials include patient information, operating procedures, and names of doctors.  The Admission Record lists name, age, date and time admitted and dismissed, parents' names (if admitted by), address, fees, and amount paid.  The Operating Room Record documents the name of the procedure and the doctor.  Some of the records are largely administrative and cover payments received, supply inventories, and employee's wages.  The oversize Daily Report Book accounts for the number of patients admitted and dismissed, the type of care provided, the number of staff present, the cost of items purchased and services paid including medical supplies, groceries, cleaning products, hardware, and laundry.  The Payroll Record contains employee's name, occupation, wage, amount paid, and signature.  The General Inventory accounts for all hospital needs, furniture, telephones, operating room furniture, surgical supplies, instruments, and linens.  The collection also contains checkbooks/receipt books in use from 1909 through the time of the removal to Memphis.

LCSH:
Tennessee. University. Medical Units.
Medicine-Tennessee-Education.
Medical colleges-Tennessee.
Medical education-Tennessee-History.
Tennessee-Education-Medical colleges.
University of Nashville-History.
University of Tennessee at Nashville. Medical Dept.

Keywords:
University of Tennessee
University of Nashville
Nashville Medical College
Medical Schoools
Medical History
Medical Education
Hospital Operations
Tennessee Hospital
Hospitals
Nashville, Tennessee

Container List

Series 1:  Tennessee Hospital Records

Box 1:

Folder 1:  Admissions Book Sept. 20, 1909 - Oct. 16, 1909

Folder 2:  Check Books
    Item 1:  October. 5, 1910 - April 18, 1911
    Item 2:  April 15 - May 27, 1911

Folder 3:  Check Books
    Item 1:  October. 19, 1910 - June 14, 1911

Folder 4:  General Inventory, June 1, 1910, taken by M.F. McMaster

Folder 5:  Operation Record, ca. 1910

Folder 6:  Pay Roll Record, Oct. 16, 1909 - June 17, 1911

Folder 7:  Receipt Books
    Item 1:  September 20, 1909 - October 1909
    Item 2:  November 24, 1909 - May 12, 1910
    Item 3:  December 24, 1909 - February 10, 1910

Folder 8:  Receipt Books
    Item 1:  January 22, 1910 - March 31, 1910
    Item 2:  January 25, 1910 - March 16, 1911
    Item 3:  February 10, 1910 - March 10, 1910

Folder 9:  Receipt Books
    Item 1:  February 5, 1910 - July 30, 1910
    Item 2:  March 10, 1910 - April 9, 1910
    Item 3:  April 9, 1910 - April 23, 1910
    Item 4:  October 18, 1909 - November 13, 1909

Folder 10:  Receipt Books
     Item 1: May 13, 1910 - September 9, 1910
     Item 2: August 10, 1910 - September 27, 1910
     Item 3: September 3, 1910 - November 17, 1910

Box 2:  Oversize

Item 1:  Daily Report Book, January 1910 - June 1911 (Oversize)

Item 2:  Office Fund Disbursement Ledger, November 1909 - June 1911 (Oversize)