Public health

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:...

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Hench reports to the Reed Memorial Association board on the Finlay-Reed controversy and the ongoing attempt to memorialize Camp Lazear.

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Hench reports to the Reed Memorial Association board on the Finlay-Reed controversy and the ongoing attempt to memorialize Camp Lazear.

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These regulations describe the inspection, quarantine, and disinfection procedures to be implemented at ports to prevent the introduction of yellow fever into the United States. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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Byrd's paper discusses the control of mosquito breeding as the most effective way to reduce the incidence of malaria.

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Robertson reviews recent reports on plague prevention in northern China.

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Connor's article concerns yellow fever control by an anti-mosquito campaign.

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Carter comments on recent yellow fever articles and summarizes yellow fever work. He discusses the relation of Leptospira icteroides to yellow fever and the use of curative sera. He also mentions the recent yellow fever outbreaks in Brazil, Colombia, and West Africa.

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Griffitts reports on the breeding of Anopheles in salt water, mainly in Virginia.

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:...

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Wood gives a history of the American occupation in Cuba and discusses the yellow fever outbreak and consequent investigation by Reed and Lazear. Article appears in “The Annals of the American Academy.” Only pages 16 and 17 are included.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Henry Rose Carter consists of materials relating to Henry Rose Carter that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1880 to 1932 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1883 to 1932. The series is particularly rich in materials that document Henry Rose Carter's professional activities in the last eleven years of his life (1914-1925). These materials include, but are not limited to the...

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This bibliography lists the articles on yellow fever and malaria written by Carter.

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This bill is meant to regulate the impounding of water.

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A biographical sketch, with corrections [by Laura Armistead Carter?], describes H.R. Carter's family, education, career, and character.

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This is a detailed account of Carter's public health work and associated study of yellow fever.

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This biography focuses on the reasons why Ames should be included with the Yellow Fever Board and the volunteer soldiers in the Roll of Honor.

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Kosslow writes a succinct but vivid account of Walter Reed's life, dealing with his work on typhoid and yellow fever.

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This review, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is critical of some of the accomplishments attributed to William Crawford Gorgas by Marie Gorgas and Hendrick.

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This booklet contains extracts and resolutions honoring Walter Reed furnished by various individuals and institutions.