Public health
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1023 Collections and/or Records:
Fiebre Amarilla: Instrucciones Populares Para Evitar Su Transmision y Propagacion, December 1907
Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 25
Identifier: 02925001
Scope and Contents
This pamphlet details preventative measures against yellow fever, especially the control of mosquitos.
Dates:
December 1907
Field Note No. 14: Pine Trees in Relation to Mosquito Production
, by the U.S. Public Health Service, May 23, 1923
Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 1
Identifier: 01101001
Scope and Contents
The writer discusses the influence of pine trees on mosquito production.
Dates:
May 23, 1923
Form from the Finance Department of the Island of Cuba, November 12, 1900
Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 23
Identifier: 02223001
Scope and Contents
The form requests $5000 payable from Customs receipts for sanitary work in Cuba.
Dates:
November 12, 1900
Form letter from Calvin DeWitt of the Walter Reed Memorial Association, circa 1905
Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02831002
Scope and Contents
This form letter from DeWitt solicits contributions to the Walter Reed Memorial Association.
Dates:
circa 1905
Form letter from Calvin DeWitt of the Walter Reed Memorial Association to "Doctor", circa 1905
Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02831003
Scope and Contents
This form letter from DeWitt solicits contributions to the Walter Reed Memorial Association.
Dates:
circa 1905
Former Casade Salud Hospital, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, 1948
Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 11
Identifier: P5811066
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series VI. Alphabetical files primarily consists of materials that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1860 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from 1940 to 1956. All of these items have been arranged thematically into biographical files. Each file contains materials created by or relating to people who were either involved with the yellow fever experiments or aided Philip Showalter...
Dates:
1948
Funeral services for Dr. H.R. Carter Will be Tomorrow
,The Washington Post, September 15, 1925
Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 29
Identifier: N1229007
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...
Dates:
September 15, 1925
Grateful Nation Pensions Widows of Fever Martyrs
,The Havana Post, September 27, 1900
Item — Box 3: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 67
Identifier: N0367011
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series I. Jesse W. Lazear consists of materials relating to Lazear that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1800 to 1956 with the bulk of the items dating from 1863 to 1943. Much of the series consists of the correspondence of Jesse W. Lazear and his wife Mabel H. Lazear. Jesse's correspondence dates from his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University to his death in 1900. Researchers can learn a great deal...
Dates:
September 27, 1900
Gust E. Lambert - Yellow Fever Nurse, by Paul L. Tate, circa 1954
Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 04732006
Scope and Contents
[Tate] gives a brief account of Lambert's achievements as a sailor and nurse.
Dates:
circa 1954
History of a Case of Yellow Fever Occurred in Parahyba from 16 to 24/3/25, by G. Jameson Carr, March 25, 1925
Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 24
Identifier: 01224017
Scope and Contents
Carr gives a clinical account of the illness and death of yellow fever victim Robert Sherman.
Dates:
March 25, 1925
Impounded Waters, circa 1920s
Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01002026
Scope and Contents
This report gives proposed impounded water health regulations cover floating debris, vegetation, and fish stocking.
Dates:
circa 1920s
Impounded waters, circa 1923
Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 17
Identifier: 01017001
Scope and Contents
This is an unsigned manuscript on impounded waters, which details public health regulations, worker conditions, and the bodies of water themselves.
Dates:
circa 1923
Impounded Waters
, by Joseph Augustine LePrince, circa 1921
Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 24
Identifier: 00924010
Scope and Contents
LePrince describes mosquito breeding in impounded waters, suggesting necessary regulations to be implemented by State Boards of Health.
Dates:
circa 1921
In a Yellow-Fever Camp: How the Pestilence Made Its Presence Known in Siboney---The American Hospital Tents in the Mountains--A Brave Physician and His Scanty Equipment
,The Argonaut, August 14, 1899
Item — Box 19: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 27
Identifier: N1927001
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:
August 14, 1899
Interesante Entrevista con el Jefe Local de Sanidad, Doctor Mc. Millan.
,El Gamagueyano, November 14, 1907
Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 95
Identifier: N2895016
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:
November 14, 1907
La Fiebre Amarilla en 40 Años
, circa 1919
Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 34
Identifier: 00934008
Scope and Contents
This chart tracks the number of cases of yellow fever per year, from 1880-1919, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Dates:
circa 1919
La Fiebre Amarilla Inoculada a los Inmigrantes Espanoles por Medio de Mosquitos!
,La Discusion, November 21, 1900
Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 10
Identifier: 02210001
Scope and Contents
This article, taken from La Discusion (November 21, 1900 - page 2a), criticizes human experimentation by the Yellow Fever Commission as being primarily carried out on recent immigrants.
Dates:
November 21, 1900
La Nacionalizacion de los Servicios Sanitarios
, July 8, 1907
Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 95
Identifier: N2895002
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:
July 8, 1907
Lecture on the Prophylaxis of Yellow Fever
, by [Henry Rose Carter], circa 1922
Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 6
Identifier: 01006001
Scope and Contents
[Carter] discusses the prevention of yellow fever, including past experiments involving control of the human host vs. control of mosquitoes.
Dates:
circa 1922
Lecture:Sanitation Work in Cuba, by Jefferson Randolph Kean, 1910
Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 42
Identifier: 06242002
Scope and Contents
Kean details the methods the Sanitary Inspectors used in Cuba to combat yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Dates:
1910