Letter describing treatment of Cocoanut Grove fire victims at Boston City Hospital

Letter describing treatment of Cocoanut Grove fire victims at Boston City Hospital

Cocoanut Grove (Boston, Mass.) -- Fire, 1942
Boston City Hospital
Harvard Medical School -- Students
Hospitals -- Massachusetts -- Boston
Disaster medicine

Letter describes the response of medical personnel and the administration of medical treatment following a mass casualty event

Letter from John H. T. McPherson, Jr. to friends and family describing his experience treating victims of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire at Boston City Hospital on November 28, 1942

McPherson, John H. T., Jr., 1917-2001

1942 November 30

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See the Joseph C. Aub papers (H MS c169), the Oliver Cope papers (H MS c 177), and the Timothy Leary papers (B MS c40) for additional records related to the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire

Letter describing treatment of Cocoanut Grove fire victims at Boston City Hospital, 30 November 1942 (inclusive), H MS c480, Box 1, Folder 1

text

2 pages typed

English

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H MS c480

Acc. 2016-124

DigID0004158-0004159

Gift of Helen McPherson Costantino and Margaret McPherson Smith to the Harvard Medical Library, 2016