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Collection Number: 04571

Collection Title: J. W. Roy Norton Papers, 1930s-1970s

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Size 3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1000 items)
Abstract J. W. Roy Norton, North Carolina state health director, 1948- 1965, and professor in the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correspondence, writings, notes, clippings, and other materials relating to Norton's career in public health. Included are materials about many public health issues, especially birth control, alcohol and substance abuse, and control of diseases like pellagra and polio. Also included are materials relating to Norton's activities in various public health organizations in the United States and abroad and to his teaching duties at UNC, particularly to his courses on public health administration.
Creator Norton, J. W. Roy, 1898-1974.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
May be used with staff assistance.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the J. W. Roy Norton papers #4571, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Transferred from University Archives and Records Service, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1991.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, July 1991

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Unprocessed.

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J. W. Roy Norton, North Carolina state health director, 1948- 1965, and professor in the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Correspondence, writings, notes, clippings, and other materials relating to Norton's career in public health. Included are materials about many public health issues, especially birth control, alcohol and substance abuse, and control of diseases like pellagra and polio. Also included are materials relating to Norton's activities in various public health organizations in the United States and abroad and to his teaching duties at UNC, particularly to his courses on public health administration.

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Contents list

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Box 1-2

Box 1

Box 2

Papers

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