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Title: Our General Hospital Is Winning Public Confidence
Description: Illustration and description of the hospital and its diverse services, for instance "victims of street brawls, holdups, and desperate criminals; wounded men connected with committing crimes who require iron cages to prevent their escape from the hospital. .."
Date: 1920-11-20
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Dr. Porter E. Williams
Description: Biography and photograph of Porter E. Williams "Superintendent of the Kansas City General Hospital".
Date: 1932-10-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: History of the Kansas City General Hospital
Description: Article chronicles the history and development of General Hospital, the first hospital in the city. The first hospital was built in 1870 at 22nd and McCoy Streets. Article contains numerous photographs of interior and exterior of buildings.
Date: 1932-10-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Synopsis of the "Report of the General Hospital Task Force"
Description: Reasoning for preservation of 1908 hospital on Hospital Hill, without the old building "an otherwise architecturally confused area."
Date: 1986-11
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: History in the Mending
Description: Article describes the evolution of health care in the Kansas City region, from the earliest hospitals to the establishment of large medical schools and research institutions. A decade-by-decade description of the system's growth and development is provided, as well as a timeline of hospital openings and closings from 1864 to 2007. Over time, suburbanization has led to several hospital closings in Kansas City's urban core.
Date: 2014-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Big Hospital Reorganized
Description: The gist of this source is that the General Hospital's services are being restructured, adding outpatient care but eliminating insanity cases.
Date: 1920-11-20
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Activities of the Kansas City Health Department in Relation to Social Hygiene
Description: Article about the Kansas City Health Department and its dealings with venereal, or "social" diseases, especially syphilis and gonorrhea, including discussions about their treatment at the General Hospital Clinic since the mid-1920s.
Date: 1932-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

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