This collection is a subgroup (Predecessor Agency) of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services records. The Montana State Board of Health and Environmental Sciences was abolished in 1994. Please see the primary finding aid for more Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services records.

This collection consists of records created by the Montana State Board of Health and Environmental Sciences, and its predecessor the Montana State Board of Health, as well as those records created by the Division of Environmental Sanitation and its predecessors. The collection contains meeting minutes, reports from the Missoula City-County Health Department and from state health officers concerning typhoid fever Montana, licensing laws for hospitals, state public health plans, and industrial hygiene of the Zonolite Company of Libby. Also included are materials documenting on the history and activities of the Montana Health Planning Committee from 1946 to 1950. The Division of Environmental Sanitation records consist of correspondence, Food and Drug field investigations, Water and Sewage lab reports, and miscellaneous other materials documenting the activities of those offices.