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Dr. Henry H. Davis
Physician, pharmacist, and Camden's first Medical Inspector; later Health Director and chief school physician who shaped public-school health care in Camden for a generation.
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Dr. Henry H. Davis
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Kaighn Avenue
One of Camden's major east-west streets, running from Kaighn's Point at the Delaware River east to Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, with block-by-block address histories from the 1860s through the early 2000s.
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Davis Street
Davis Street runs southeast from north of Sheridan Street to Ferry Avenue in the East Camden/Morgan Village area, named for Dr. Henry Hill Davis — Camden's first medical inspector and School Medical Inspector in New Jersey.
Schools
Lincoln School
aka Claudius W. Bradshaw School; aka Challenge Square Academy; aka Met East High School 1151 Kaighn Avenue Camden had become an industrial city by the 1880s, and although the country went into an economic slump in the early 1890s, generally referred to as "the panic of 1893," the city continued to grow and with it the need for new schools.
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2nd Street
2nd Street extends north-south between Front Street and 3rd Street, running parallel to the Delaware River until Mechanic Street. In the early 1970s, several buildings were cleared on the east side of North 2nd Street below Mickle Street to make way for the Royal Court townhomes and Mickle Tower senior citizens apartment building.
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Four Prominent Physicians
Ben Courter's 1931 Camden Courier-Post reminiscence of four leading South Jersey physicians — Drs. Godfrey, Iszard, Davis and Gross — recalling how Dr. H. H. Davis transformed health care for Camden's schoolchildren.
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Camden Opens Hospital in Battery B Armory
President H. H. Davis of the Camden Board of Health selected the Battery B Armory as an emergency hospital during the 1918 influenza and pneumonia epidemic.
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Dr. Davis Urges Annual Clean-Up Week
Dr. H. H. Davis, president of the Board of Health, urged residents to observe the city's annual clean-up week and to “can the rubbish and help can the Kaiser and other filth.”
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Two School Nurses Appointed
Dr. H. H. Davis, chief medical inspector, appointed Edna M. Moore and Mary F. Snyder as public-school nurses, bringing the district to three.
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School Staff and Administration
Marble dedication plaque of the Alfred Cramer School listing the 1913 Camden Board of Education members and school officials, including H.H. Davis, M.D., medical inspector.
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One of the New Schools Opened
The Camden Daily Courier reports the opening of the James M. Cassady School, with Health Physician Davis explaining the closing of the Dudley School during a diphtheria outbreak. (Transcription incomplete.)
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Camden Lodge No. 293, B.P.O.E. — Membership Ballot Notice
A membership ballot notice for Camden Lodge No. 293, B.P.O.E., listing the applicants to be balloted on at the April 18, 1906 stated meeting; Dr. H. H. Davis served on the investigating committee for one candidate.
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Royal Welcome for Ex-Sheriff Baird
The Philadelphia Inquirer's account of the enthusiastic welcome given State Assessor and former Sheriff David Baird on his return from Europe; Dr. H. H. Davis was among the Camden men in the greeting party.
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Boys Playing With Matches Started a Big Fire
Boys playing with matches behind the Market House on Federal Street started the biggest fire in Camden's history on May 13, 1900, destroying nearly half a hundred buildings along Federal Street and Taylor Avenue before four Philadelphia engine companies helped master it.
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Obsequies of Henry B. Wilson
An account of the funeral of former Postmaster Henry B. Wilson, at which Dr. H. H. Davis served as one of the pallbearers.
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Side-Splitting Farce Goes On
The Camden Daily Telegram's account of the Police Committee's hearings on charges against city policemen, at which Dr. “Mark Hanna” Davis was noted as absent from the Reformers' deliberations.
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Boy Attacked by Dog on Spruce Street
A ferocious dog nearly killed six-year-old Walter Vanstavern on Spruce Street near South 7th Street; Coroner H. H. Davis took charge of the case.
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Burial Certificate for Charles Blieth
Coroner Davis issued a certificate of burial for Charles Blieth, of No. 22 Oak Street, who died without medical attendance.
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Coroner Davis Holds Inquest in Child's Death
Coroner Davis held an inquest on a colored girl believed to have been murdered; the jury found she came to her death from shock at the hands of persons unknown.
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Infant's Body Found on Broadway
Coroner Davis took charge of the body of an infant found on Broadway near Branch Street, and of the recovered body of William Knowells, drowned off the Chestnut Street wharf.
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Camden News — June 2, 1885
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news, closing with Coroner H. H. Davis's inquest verdict of accidental death in the killing of Mrs. Matilda Scholl.
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Throughout the State
A Trenton Evening Times statewide news column noting the death of Mrs. Matilda Scholl, struck by a train on the West Jersey Railroad in Camden.
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The Day Inquest
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden items, including the death of Mrs. Matilda Scholl on the West Jersey Railroad, of which Coroner H. H. Davis took charge.
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Killed on the Rail
The Camden Post's account of the death of Mrs. Matilda Scholl, struck and killed by a West Jersey Railroad train near the ferry; Coroner H. H. Davis took charge of the case.
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Matilda Scholl, Death Certificate
The New Jersey death certificate of Matilda Scholl, a 31-year-old Camden housewife accidentally killed at Line Ditch and the West Jersey Railroad on May 29, 1885; Coroner W. N. Davis signed it.