Yellow fever

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Hench is anxious to see Truby's book. Hench then mentions that he read Finlay's book, which supports the Cuban perspective that the Americans only confirmed, not proved, the mosquito theory.

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Hench promises to send Truby additional extracts from some of Reed's letters. Hench offers his opinion on people who are not fully backing the war effort.

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Hench thinks that Reed was independent of Sternberg in his yellow fever investigation and is trying to decide how much credit Sternberg deserves. Hench believes that Reed and Lazear worked out the project on their own.

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Hench is unable to resolve the discrepancy concerning the number of yellow fever huts. He discusses Siler's health. Lazear's daughter has her father's missing microscope.

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Hench wonders if Agramonte was with Lazear at his death because Carroll claimed that Agramonte had left three days earlier.

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Hench has received microfilm of the notebook found at the New York Academy of Medicine and has recognized Lazear's and Reed's handwriting. The contents include case reports of sick soldiers, electrozone experiment notes, observations of non-experimental and experimental yellow fever cases, and notes about mosquitoes. The notebook shows that Lazear was working with mosquitoes even before the Yellow Fever Board was created.

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Hench hopes that the sites affiliated with the conquest of yellow fever will be memorialized. Hench solicits Recio' help in obtaining a statement from the Cuban government as evidence that it accepted Hench's report on the actual site of Camp Lazear. He offers to write an abstract of the report for a Cuban medical journal, and hopes that the Cuban media will also be informed of the discovery.

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Hench informs Recio that he found some interesting material about Camp Columbia at the U.S. Army Medical Museum.

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Hench inquires if Recio will help him locate a copy of "Memoria del Hospital Numero Uno Correspondiente al ano de 1902." He would like to give a copy to the Surgeon General's Library.

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Hench sends Dampf a reprint and wants to know if any of Dampf's colleagues would be interested in helping preserve Camp Lazear.

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Hench would like to meet with Alice Forbes, Wallace Forbes' mother.

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Hench requests copies of various United States government documents, all marked exhausted.

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Hench requests Report No. 841, 71st Congress from the Government Printing Office.

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Hench thanks Tisdel for his assistance in acquiring a copy of the Yellow Fever Commission report.

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Hench inquires whether Suarez-Solis would make an official statement that the address of number 102 Real Street is the same as in 1900.

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Hench returns Benitoa's photographs. He informs Benitoa of Moran's status as a yellow fever volunteer.

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Hench informs Malloch that he is very interested in the notebook which Wood examined at the New York Academy of Medicine. He wants to know how it came to the Academy and inquires about obtaining it through inter-library loan. He believes he would be able to identify the handwriting.

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Hench arranges to meet with Malloch at the library to view the notebook.

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Hench compliments Jacobson on his Reed paper. Hench inquires if Jacobson saw any records indicating that Reed examined yellow fever cases in New York.

Scope and Contents Hench requests a meeting with Packard in New York. He relates the story of his yellow fever research, the discovery of Camp Lazear Building No. 1, and subsequent efforts to memorialize the site. He seeks the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation, explaining that the Cubans feel Finlay was denied credit for his yellow fever work and blame the Rockefeller Foundation, in part, for championing Reed over Finlay. Hench believes this is an opportunity to recognize the work of both Finlay...