Wikipedia:Meetup/Virtual/U.S. Marine Hospitals

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The U.S. Marine Hospitals Edit-a-thon

sponsored by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health


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 * This edit-a-thon will include presentations on the history of the U.S. Marine Hospital system and NIOSH's predecessors in the U.S. Public Health Service.

when


 * TBD

how
 * This is a virtual edit-a-thon, so anyone anywhere in the world can participate! Links will be posted soon.

Agenda

 * Presentations (on Zoom)
 * History of the U.S. Marine Hospitals
 * The Secret Origins of NIOSH talk: the history of the Division of Industrial Hygiene and its transformation into NIOSH
 * Editing

The final nine
Nine hospitals remained in the system when it was closed in 1981. The general hospitals in New York, Nassau Bay near Houston, San Francisco, and Seattle, and the National Leprosarium have articles, but the following are missing:

Existing hospitals
Several Marine Hospitals constructed prior to 1912 are still in existence; articles exist for those in Charleston, Mobile, Louisville, Portland, Martha's Vineyard, Memphis, Fort Stanton, Ellis Island, and Pittsburgh. Hospitals in Baltimore, New York, and Chelsea, Massachusetts are associated with the later hospitals listed above. The remaining missing articles are:

Other hospitals
See List of U.S. Marine Hospitals for a complete list.