Public health

Kean discusses the sanitation efforts used to prevent yellow fever in Cuba from 1906 to 1909. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Pothier sends White his final report on the 1923 Yellow Fever Commission inspection tour of Colombia. He describes travel, meetings with government officials, and incidence of yellow fever and mosquitoes. A series of appended documents [two in Spanish] discuss preparations for the trip, the suspected epidemic in Bucaramanga, individual yellow fever cases, and further details of the tour.

Mitchel complains about his problems with the Peruvian government. He encloses a copy of a letter from M.L. Vega regarding his situation.

Hanson reports on the conclusion of the yellow fever campaign in Peru. He encourages Carter to file all his expense receipts since the exchange rate has improved.

Carter writes about the Public Health Service, his children, and his health.

Carter writes that his life has been unsettled for the part ten years and a struggle for the past four or five. He discusses his work of caring for patients in hospitals and aboard vessels.

Carter writes about the health of his wife, as well as his own health.

Carter expresses his fear that yellow fever will be a problem in the Yucatan during the upcoming season.

Carter writes about his surroundings.

[Carter] writes about his travel plans and work.

Carter writes about the funding of yellow fever work in Peru.

[Carter] believes that malaria is best controlled by attacking mosquitoes and explains why. He notes that community sterilization of malaria carriers by quinine is a recognized method advocated by physicians, but not by entomologists.

[Carter?] writes to Hanson that he recalls balancing accounts in Piura, Peru on this day last year.

LePrince discusses field work in Texas to control the outbreak of yellow fever.

Darling writes that he has not found abnormalities in blood of yellow fever cases. He had hoped to join the yellow fever work, but has been advised to stay with Department of Hygiene, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

This letter concerns qualifications of yellow fever workers.

Carter is ordered to attend the Society of Tropical Medicine conference and the National Malaria Committee meeting.

The writer praises Carter's work, entitled "El Doctor de Guadalupe." The writer also notes the contributions, in Peru, of Hanson and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Glennan reveals the costs of the new disinfecting building for the Shore Plant for the upcoming six months. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

[Morejos?] writes about mosquito eradication and other sanitary measures in various Cuban locations.