- Date
- circa 1968-09
- Kind
- Medical
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- healthcarecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 1968 Beaver Beacon reported John A. Gallagher and Jim Evans as patients at Little Traverse Hospital in Petoskey. It also reported Isabel Southern recovering at home after a tractor tipped when a wheel dropped into a hole, causing multiple fractures but no internal injuries.
Evidence and limits
These are brief community health notices, not medical records. They do not establish diagnoses beyond the newspaper wording, treatment details, or complete identities.
Sources
- Reports John A. Gallagher and Jim Evans at Little Traverse Hospital and Isabel Southern recovering at home after a tractor accident and multiple fractures; it does not provide medical records, diagnoses beyond the notice, or complete identities.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published hospital notices.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1968-09_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island-connected hospital and tractor-accident notices, September 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-hospital-notes-september-1968/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1968, “Hospital Notes.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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