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Yellow fever

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2717 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  March 2, 1908

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 25
Identifier: 06225001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas is convinced that mosquito eradication is the only method to keep yellow fever from developing into an epidemic.

Dates:  March 2, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to John J. Moran,  June 22, 1904

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 24
Identifier: 02724001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas hires Moran as sanitary inspector for the Panama Canal Zone.

Dates:  June 22, 1904
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Robert M. O'Reilly,  February 20, 1909

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 02750001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas describes the achievements of the Panama Canal Zone Sanitary Department.

Dates:  February 20, 1909
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Robert M. O'Reilly with enclosed draft

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Robert M. O'Reilly,  January 3, 1905

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 43
Identifier: 02743001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas writes about his own work with the Canal Zone Sanitary Commission.

Dates:  January 3, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Robert M. O'Reilly,  May 5, 1905

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 7
Identifier: 02807001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas reports on yellow fever cases in the Canal Zone, as well as administrative issues.

Dates:  May 5, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Robert M. O'Reilly,  June 3, 1905

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 14
Identifier: 02814001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas describes cases of yellow fever in the Canal Zone, and the reaction to the new Sanitary Commission.

Dates:  June 3, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Ronald Ross,  August 9, 1905

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 19
Identifier: 02819001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas reports on conditions in Panama regarding yellow fever and malaria. He recommends that the Nobel Prize be given to America.

Dates:  August 9, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Ronald Ross,  August 9, 1906

 Item — Box 61: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 4
Identifier: 06104001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas suggests that Finlay and Carter be nominated for the Nobel Prize. In the postscript, Gorgas writes an autograph note for Carter.

Dates:  August 9, 1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Ronald Ross

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Walter Reed,  February 6, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 4
Identifier: 02604001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas discusses Reed's success with Carlos Finlay's mosquito theory. Gorgas would like a post in Panama after Cuba.

Dates:  February 6, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William D. Kelly to John J. Moran,  March 8, 1938

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 56
Identifier: 03456001
Scope and Contents

Kelly requests permission to display Moran's name in the credits of the M.G.M. motion picture “Yellow Jack.”

Dates:  March 8, 1938
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence of John J. Moran

Letter from William F. King to John J. Moran,  October 17, 1933

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 10
Identifier: 03310001
Scope and Contents

King sends Moran a program of the memorial session of the American Public Health Association

Dates:  October 17, 1933
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from William F. King to John J. Moran with enclosed program and related note

Letter from William F. King to John J. Moran,  June 22, 1933

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6
Identifier: 03306001
Scope and Contents

King invites Moran to participate in a meeting of the American Public Health Association commemorating the anniversary of Walter Reed's paper, presented in 1900.

Dates:  June 22, 1933
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William F. King to John J. Moran,  August 10, 1933

 Item — Box 33: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 7
Identifier: 03307001
Scope and Contents

King informs Moran that the date of the memorial session has been changed and urges Moran to attend.

Dates:  August 10, 1933
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William H. Taft to Carlos J. Finlay,  October 4, 1906

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 45
Identifier: 02845001
Scope and Contents

Taft writes that Kean has been detailed to assist Finlay in stamping out yellow fever in Cuba.

Dates:  October 4, 1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William H. Welch to Howard A. Kelly,  circa November 1, 1922

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 63
Identifier: 03063016
Scope and Contents

Welch writes about the mosquito theory of yellow fever transmission and the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates:  circa November 1, 1922
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Miscellaneous correspondence of Howard A. Kelly with related materials

Letter from William N. Hill to [Howard A. Kelly?],  December 7, 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 22
Identifier: 02922001
Scope and Contents

Hill comments on a strategy to lobby Congress for pension bills.

Dates:  December 7, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William O. Owen to Joseph H. White,  October 7, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 19
Identifier: 01119026
Scope and Contents

Owen lists references to articles regarding spirochetes in Africa.

Dates:  October 7, 1923
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from William S. Thayer to Laura Armistead Carter,  April 14, 1926

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 38
Identifier: 01238001
Scope and Contents

Thayer discusses the influence of Carter's and Finlay's work on Reed and Lazear.

Dates:  April 14, 1926
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Letter from William S. Thayer to Mabel H. Lazear, June 29, 1904

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 24
Identifier: 00424001
Scope and Contents

Thayer believes that Lazear should receive credit for being the first to advocate the mosquito theory to the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates: June 29, 1904
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from William S. Thayer to Mabel H. Lazear, April 19, 1926

 Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 57
Identifier: 00457001
Scope and Contents

Thayer makes reference to Carter's experiments and their influence on Lazear. Thayer inquires if Lazear discussed his theories with her.

Dates: April 19, 1926
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear / Letters from W.S. Thayer to Mabel H. Lazear