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Letter from William Ossenfort to Lawrence Kolb

Creator:: Ossenfort, William F., 1898-1973
Title:: Letter from William Ossenfort to Lawrence Kolb
Date:: 06 December 1942
Description:: Ossenfort, Director at the Ft. Worth TX Narcotic Farm wrote to Kolb (then Assistant Surgeon General and Chief of the Mental Hygiene Division) about the challenges of managing his hospital during wartime.
Rights:: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Format:: Text
Extent:: 10 pages
Language:: English
NLM ID:: 9918351284206676X145
Profiles Collection:: The Lawrence Kolb Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/9918351284206676X145
Story Section:: The PHS Division of Mental Hygiene, 1938-1944
Exhibit Tags:: hygiene
Recipient:: Kolb, Lawrence, 1881-1972