DeWitt C. Burkes papers

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Morningside Hospital (Portland, OR), 1954-1956 [b002] [f001] [037_068]

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Creator

Burkes, DeWitt C. ¹

Author

Date

1956-07-11

Description

Author was a psychiatrist. Major files deal with the Central Inspection Board, American Psychiatric Association (1954-1957); Morningside Hospital, Portland, Oregon (minutes of staff meetings, 1955-1958); North Pacific Society of Neurology and Psychiatry (1940-1950); Portland Psychiatrists in Private Practice (organization papers, 1955-1957). There is also correspondence about the beginnings of the Portland Chamber Orchestra Association (1947-1949).
Newspaper clippings: "GAO Audit of Morningside Hospital Books Show Firm, Personal Expenses Mixed"; "Senate Gives Approval to Mental Health Bill"; "Morningside Views Given"; "GAO Finds Books Err at Hospital: Morningside Audit Declares Reports on Profits Faulty"; "Hospital Quiz Urged"; "New Yorker Backs Green on Hospital"; "Hospital Labeled Siberia"; "Morningside Owner Asks Bill on Alaska Patients"; "Alaskan Mental Hosptial Needs"; "Loose Handling of U.S. Money"; "Criticism of Hospital Called Not Pertinent"; "Audit Reveals Concealed Morningside Profits"; "Staff at Morningside Scored as Too Small"; "The Morningside Report"
Correspondence and newspaper clippings related to Dr. Dewitt C. Burkes and the Morningside Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Topics included advocacy for S. 1027 and S. 1028, two senate bills that would help create a mental hospital with outpatient facilities in Alaska so patients would no longer have to travel to Oregon to receive care. There was also significant controversy over the quality of care and amount of profit made by Morningside hospital. Letters between Burkes, Morningside owner Henry Coe, the American Psychiatric Association, and others discuss that conflict and potential solutions.

Subject

Work Type

newspaper clipping ⁸

Location

Rights

In Copyright ¹¹

License

Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International ¹²

Use Restrictions

Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections & University Archives.

Rights Holder

University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

Identifier

Ax106_b002_f001_037_068

Language

English [eng]¹³

Repository

University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives ¹⁴

Local Collection Name

DeWitt C. Burkes papers, 1940-1957 ¹⁵

Local Collection ID

Ax 106

Archival Box Number

Archival Folder Name

Morningside Hospital (Portland, OR), 1954-1956

Archival Folder Number

Publisher

Finding Aid

https://scua.uoregon.edu/repositories/2/resources/427

Media

Text ¹⁹

Institution

University of Oregon ²⁰

Submission Date

04/08/2025

Modified

04/09/2025

Collections

DeWitt C. Burkes papers (open)

APA

DeWitt C. Burkes papers, University of Oregon. (27 Apr 2025). Morningside Hospital (Portland, OR), 1954-1956 [b002] [f001] [037_068] Retrieved from https://prod.oregondigital.org/concern/documents/t435gf57b

MLA

DeWitt C. Burkes papers, University of Oregon. "Morningside Hospital (Portland, OR), 1954-1956 [b002] [f001] [037_068]" Oregon Digital. 27 Apr 2025. https://prod.oregondigital.org/concern/documents/t435gf57b

Chicago

DeWitt C. Burkes papers, University of Oregon. "Morningside Hospital (Portland, OR), 1954-1956 [b002] [f001] [037_068]" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2025-04-27. https://prod.oregondigital.org/concern/documents/t435gf57b

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://prod.oregondigital.org/concern/documents/t435gf57b | title= Morningside Hospital (Portland, OR), 1954-1956 [b002] [f001] [037_068] |author= Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969 |accessdate= 2025-04-27 |publisher= Oregon Journal (Firm)}}

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1	Burkes, DeWitt C.	http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/BurkesDeWittC
2	Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79115506
3	Hamilton, Roulhac	http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/people/HamiltonRoulhac
4	Smith, Robert A.	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50013255
5	Activism	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2023000618
6	Psychiatrists	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108377
7	Psychiatrists--United States	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97008694
8	newspaper clipping	http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300429554
9	Washington >> Washington County >> Washington, D.C. >> United States	https://sws.geonames.org/4140963/
10	Portland >> Clackamas/Multnomah/Washington Counties >> Oregon >> United States	https://sws.geonames.org/5746545/
11	In Copyright	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
12	Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
13	English [eng]	http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
14	University of Oregon. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003116678
15	DeWitt C. Burkes papers, 1940-1957	http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/DeWittCBurkespapers19401957
16	Oregon Journal (Firm)	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017066726
17	Washington Bureau of the Journal	http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/publisher/WashingtonBureauoftheJournal
18	Oregonian (Firm)	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96022572
19	Text	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text
20	University of Oregon	http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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