Name: August 1958 Beaver Beacon reports island hospitalizations and surgery
Start: 1958-08
End: 1958-08
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 1958-08
Kind: Medical
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcarecommunitytransportation
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The August 1958 Beaver Beacon reports several off-island medical notices: Perry Gatliff at the Northern Michigan Sanatorium in Gaylord, emergency appendectomies for Mary Margaret Wojan and Mark Hetherington in Charlevoix, and hospital travel by Joy Greene and Vora Wojan.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper notice, not a medical or transport record. It does not establish diagnoses beyond the two reported appendectomies or later outcomes.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, August 1958, “HOSPITALIZED.”
Reports Perry Gatliff at Northern Michigan Sanatorium in Gaylord; emergency appendectomies for Mary Margaret Wojan and Mark Hetherington in Charlevoix; Joy Greene going to Charlevoix; and Vora Wojan going to Little Traverse Hospital in Petoskey. It does not provide medical charts, diagnoses beyond the appendectomies, transport details, or outcomes. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, August 1958, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held four-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the hospitalization column; it does not expand the medical record.
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Beaver Island Archive, “August 1958 Beaver Beacon reports island hospitalizations and surgery”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-august-1958-medical-notices/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1958, “HOSPITALIZED.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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