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Box 28

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Letter from Charles E. Magoon to William Crawford Gorgas,  June 1, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 12
Identifier: 02812001
Scope and Contents

Magoon writes about yellow fever cases in the Canal Zone. He makes an official offer of full financial and manpower support for Gorgas to eradicate the disease.

Dates:  June 1, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Charles E. Magoon,  June 2, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 13
Identifier: 02813001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas requests assignment of John W. Phillips for duty in the Canal Zone Sanitary Department.

Dates:  June 2, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Robert M. O'Reilly,  June 3, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 14
Identifier: 02814001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas describes cases of yellow fever in the Canal Zone, and the reaction to the new Sanitary Commission.

Dates:  June 3, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Charles E. Magoon,  June 30, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 15
Identifier: 02815001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas requests the assignment of Raeder for duty as a nurse in the Canal Zone Sanitary Department.

Dates:  June 30, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Article mentioning Roger Post Ames,The Daily Picayune, June 30, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 16
Identifier: uva-lib:2225049
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: June 30, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from [George H.] Smith with enclosed article,  1905

 File — Box: 28, Folder: 17
Identifier: uva-lib:2225050
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates:  1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from the Acting Chief of Bureau to James Carroll,  August 3, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02818001
Scope and Contents

Carroll is asked to communicate with Owens about Reed's work in Cuba. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  August 3, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Ronald Ross,  August 9, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 19
Identifier: 02819001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas reports on conditions in Panama regarding yellow fever and malaria. He recommends that the Nobel Prize be given to America.

Dates:  August 9, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Yellow Fever Infection,The New York Sun,  September 1, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 20
Identifier: N2820001
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates:  September 1, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Photocopied fragment ofPublic Health Papers and Reports, Volume XXXI, Presented at the Thirty-Third Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston, Massachusetts, September 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 1905,  September 25, 1905-September 29, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 21
Identifier: 02821001
Scope and Contents

Proceedings of the 31st meeting of the American Public Health Association, including “Lessons to be Learned from the Present Outbreak of Yellow Fever in Louisiana” by James Carroll, “Some New Points in the Etiology and Symptomatology of Yellow Fever” by Juan Guiteras, “Yellow Fever in Mexico” by Eduardo Liceaga, and the “Official Report of the Proceedings....”.

Dates:  September 25, 1905-September 29, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

U.S. War Department General Orders, No. 172,  October 18, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 22
Identifier: 02822001
Scope and Contents

This order establishes that the Army General Hospital in the District of Columbia be named the Walter Reed United States Army General Hospital, in honor of Reed.

Dates:  October 18, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Juan Guiteras to Howard A. Kelly,  November 12, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 23
Identifier: 02823001
Scope and Contents

Guiteras responds to negative publicity about sanitary work in Panama. He states that neglect of mosquito work in the American South is the result of “moneyed interests”. He offers favorable recollections of Walter Reed.

Dates:  November 12, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Henry M. Hurd to Howard A. Kelly,  November 13, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 24
Identifier: 02824001
Scope and Contents

Hurd writes with suggestions for changes to Kelly's manuscript on the life of Walter Reed.

Dates:  November 13, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from L.O. Howard to James Carroll,  November 13, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 25
Identifier: 02825001
Scope and Contents

Howard saw many things on his trip to New Orleans that would greatly interest Carroll. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  November 13, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from L.O. Howard to Howard A. Kelly,  November 27, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 26
Identifier: 02826001
Scope and Contents

Howard forwards to Kelly statistics on yellow fever cases from New Orleans epidemics.

Dates:  November 27, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Postcard from William H. Welch to Howard A. Kelly,  December 4, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 27
Identifier: 02827001
Scope and Contents

Welch provides journal article references on yellow fever.

Dates:  December 4, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Surgeon General's Office report card,  October 10, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 28
Identifier: 02828001
Scope and Contents

These excerpts regard the erection of a tablet to Walter Reed at Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. There is also a request to see if a memorial will be built to Reed in Chicago, Illinois. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 10, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Ancient Theories of Causation of Fever by Mosquitoes, by Sir Henry A. Blake,  April 15, 1905

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 29
Identifier: 02829001
Scope and Contents

This translation [from Sanskrit] of Blake's report details ancient references to yellow fever and transmission by mosquitos.

Dates:  April 15, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from L. O. Howard to James Carroll,  January 18, 1906

 Item — Box: 28, Folder: 30
Identifier: 02830001
Scope and Contents

Howard requests that Carroll send his papers on yellow fever to a professor in Indiana. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  January 18, 1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letters from the Walter Reed Memorial Association regarding the construction of a Walter Reed memorial, circa 1905-1906

 File — Box: 28, Folder: 31
Identifier: uva-lib:2225066
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates: circa 1905-1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed