Public health

[Carter] responds to a report on yellow fever outbreaks in the Guianas.

Carter requests clarification of the veracity of a controversial study published by the Rockefeller Foundation, in 1921, regarding yellow fever and human experimentation.

Carter requests that his paper,Spontaneous Disappearance of Yellow Fever, be read before the Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Carter critiques the tentative requirements for impounding water to prevent the production of malaria which were sent to him by Hazlehurst. He discusses the costs of malaria prevention measures. He comments on the ideas of LePrince and Griffitts.

[Carter] returns some books and requests others.

[Carter] comments on Robertson's proposed bubonic plague study and on plague infected fleas.

Carter gives Woodfall advice on proposed legislation to control spread of malaria.

[Carter] requests information on the history of yellow fever in Peru. [Carter] comments on working relations with the Peruvian government.

Carter, preparing a paper, asks Hanson about his experience in Peru. He believes that Hanson and his team have saved Peru. Carter wishes he could have returned to Peru.

[Carter] informs Hanson that he has been lecturing on malaria and yellow fever at Johns Hopkins. Currently he is working on a brief history of yellow fever.

[Carter] writes that he is recuperating from an angina pectoris attack. He agrees with Hanson's yellow fever strategy. He discusses his current work on the origins of yellow fever.

Carter discusses diseases similar to yellow fever. He suspects Cucuta, Colombia is a yellow fever focal point. He comments on the origins of yellow fever.

Carter describes his work and comments on the quarantine. He also provides family news.

[Carter] expresses his gratitude for being named a Fellow of the American Public Health Association.

Carter agrees to send Surgeon General Cumming a synopsis of a lecture on either malaria or yellow fever.

[Carter] requests a reply from Surgeon General [Cumming's] office so he can prepare the lecture as requested.

Carter sends Surgeon General [Cumming] data for lectures as requested.

Carter informs Cardenas that he will be acting Sanitary Advisor of the Peruvian Government until January, 1921, when Gorgas will take over the post.

Carter informs Cattell that he published two papers on the incubation of yellow fever, which were the basis of Reed's experiments with the Yellow Fever Commission.

Carter writes that he would appreciate the Boy Scouts' help for malaria control.