Multco Archives

Oregon was the first state in the Pacific Northwest to build a public Tuberculosis (TB) hospital and was, for a long time, the epicenter of TB surgery in the region, because until 1946, Portland had the region's only medical school. Mobile x-ray trucks parked outside schools, offices and factories to administer chest x-rays to screen for TB.

From our Department of Health records (multco047) there is a Tuberculosis Program scrapbook that documents the County’s efforts to create public awareness and to provide screenings and treatment of the disease that was so rampant until a cure was developed in the 1950s. Photos and newspaper clippings from this scrapbook document the community-wide efforts of county health workers and partners.

Election Day is November 5th. For current election information, please see https://www.multco.us/elections. You can mail your ballot back on or before Election Day or return to an Official Ballot Drop Site by 8:00 p.m. on Election Day. Ballots mailed back must be postmarked on or before Election Day.

For Throwback Thursday, here is a voters’ pamphlet from the January 30, 1996 special election. Multnomah County Archives has voters’ pamphlets dating back to 1933 in the Election Records (multco016) which include records related the management of elections, registration of individual voters, abstracts of votes, precinct maps, and other election related material.