Tropical medicine

[Guiteras] reports to Gorgas on a Barbados epidemic, which he suspects may be yellow fever.

Kerr questions the need for multiple investigators examining one subject.

Kerr describes rural sanitation investigations and malaria surveys. He requests Carter's assistance.

Howard identifies the bee that Carroll had sent to him earlier, giving specifics about its range and habits. He looks forward to talking with Carroll and Reed about the success of the yellow fever experiments, and wishes them success in identifying the organism that causes yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Howard inquires about the whereabouts of the mosquitoes Lazear sent up from Cuba. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Howard discusses his work with different types of mosquitoes. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Laura Carter sends Seward a copy of Frost's notes on Henry Rose Carter. [not enclosed] She describes her father's opinions of Strobel's, Nott's and Bell's yellow fever research and encloses a list of Carter's yellow fever articles.

Carter asks ifThe Practice of Medicine in the Tropics, with her father's section on yellow fever, has gone to press. Her father has finished yellow fever work in Peru, but Laura Eugenia Cook Carter, his wife, has died.

[Laura Carter] sends Cumming a list of Henry Carter's articles at the Army Medical Museum.

Laura Carter sends Welch quotations expressing Henry Carter's final conclusions on L. icteroides.

Jackson sends a contribution for Kissinger. Her husband knew Kissinger as a hospital attendant.

Rice describes hemorrhaging in pregnant women and children associated with dengue fever.

Wood explains that Cuba is largely free from epidemic or contagious diseases and he suggests that commercial relations to be resumed with the island. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Wood claims that the New York Sun misconstrued his statements regarding yellow fever, and he wants those errors to be corrected. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Wood rebuts an accusation that Officers concealed outbreaks of yellow fever in Havana.

Wood states that he never accused Ludlow of concealing information, but that newspapers have misconstrued his statements, through false deductions and inferences. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Bates informs Carter that yellow fever vaccine and serum has been sent.

Williams discusses a bulletin that was distributed to educate the public about mosquitoes. He writes about employing a sanitary officer for malaria education.

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

Howard provides his recollections of Reed and the formation of the Walter Reed Memorial Association.