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Letter from Lawrence Kolb to Walter Treadway

Creator:: Kolb, Lawrence, 1881-1972
Title:: Letter from Lawrence Kolb to Walter Treadway
Date:: 16 September 1935
Description:: Kolb wrote to Treadway regarding the problem of voluntary Narcotic Farm patients who wished to leave before treatment was finished, and whether the PHS could claim legal authority to keep them.
Rights:: The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Format:: Text
Extent:: 2 pages
Language:: English
NLM ID:: 9918351284206676X216
Profiles Collection:: The Lawrence Kolb Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/9918351284206676X216
Story Section:: DOJ Medical Facility in Springfield, MO, and the PHS Narcotic Farm in Lexington, KY, 1932-1938
Exhibit Tags:: DOJ
Recipient:: Treadway, Walter L. (Walter Lewis), 1886-1973