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Found in 827 Collections and/or Records:

Photocopied fragment ofPublic Health Papers and Reports, Volume XXVII, Presented at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Buffalo, N.Y., September 16-20, 1901,  September 16-20, 1901

 Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 35
Identifier: 02535001
Scope and Contents

Includes papers and reports such as thePresident's Address, by Benjamin Lee;The Results of Yellow Fever Sanitation in Havana, Cuba, for the Year 1901 Up to September 1st, Carried on Upon the Basis that the Stegomyia Mosquito is the Sole Means of Its Transmission, by William Crawford Gorgas;Practical Discussion of Yellow Fever, by Alvah H. Doty; andFomites and Yellow Fever, by A. N. Bell.

Dates:  September 16-20, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Physical Survey of Proposed Pond at Whitney, North Carolina, by Henry Rose Carter and Joseph A. Le Prince, 1916

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 7
Identifier: 00807001
Scope and Contents

Carter and LePrince discuss their survey of a planned mosquito-control pond in North Carolina and the local incidence of malaria.

Dates: 1916
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Reports by Henry Rose Carter for the Surgeon General of the United States

Pioneering in Panama, Authority on Yellow Fever Tells How They Conquered the Foe in the Tropics, by Mayme Ober Peak,  circa 1920-1925

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 28
Identifier: 01328002
Scope and Contents

Peake's story on the work of Henry Rose Carter and William Gorgas in ridding Panama of yellow fever includes excerpts from Laura Armistead's Panama diary.

Dates:  circa 1920-1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Pioneering in Panama, by Mayme Ober Peak

Place of Origin of Malaria: America?, by Henry Rose Carter,  circa 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 7
Identifier: 01107002
Scope and Contents

Carter contends that America was free from malaria prior to its exploration and settlement by Europeans and Africans.

Dates:  circa 1923
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Letter from Henry Rose Carter to M.Y. Dabney with a report

Questionnaire from Philip Showalter Hench to Paul L. Tate,  July 13, 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 15
Identifier: 04715085
Scope and Contents

Hench supplies over one hundred detailed questions to Tate.

Dates:  July 13, 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Philip Showalter Hench's interview with Paul L. Tate and related materials

Radiogram from M.S. Lombard to Hugh S. Cumming,  September 14, 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 3
Identifier: 01003015
Scope and Contents

Lombard reports to Cumming on a possible yellow fever case involving the death of a Spanish sailor at Mobile, Alabama.

Dates:  September 14, 1922
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

Regulations Governing the Impounding of Waters, by the Alabama State Board of Health, circa 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 24
Identifier: 00924019
Scope and Contents

This report discusses control of debris and vegetation, fish stocking, and ditching. Pertinent state health laws are listed.

Dates: circa 1921
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Articles relating to malaria and impounded waters

Remarks on the Epidemic of Yellow Fever in Baltimore,The Hospital Bulletin,  circa February 15, 1906

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 32
Identifier: 02832001
Scope and Contents

Carroll gives a history of yellow fever in Baltimore and the debates that ensued among physicians as to whether yellow fever was contagious or not. Published in “The Hospital Bulletin” by The Hospital Bulletin Company of the University of Maryland.

Dates:  circa February 15, 1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Repetition of Some of the Foregoing Experiments,  June 21, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 6
Identifier: 01106003
Scope and Contents

This report focuses on the results of experiments onleptospira icteroidesandleptospira icterohaemorrhagiae, performed by Muller and Iglesias.

Dates:  June 21, 1923
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Reports on the effects of serum upon leptospira icteroides and leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae

Report for Walter Reed,  June 30, 1900

 Item — Box 23: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6
Identifier: 02306001
Scope and Contents

Reed writes his efficiency report for the period, June 30, 1899 to June 30, 1900. Both Sternberg and Baldwin officially endorse Reed's report. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 30, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records for Walter Reed

Report fragment:Impounded Waters, circa 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 1
Identifier: 00901001
Scope and Contents

These are Public Health Service specifications for impounded waters in malarial areas; autograph notes added.

Dates: circa 1921
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Papers on impounded waters

Report fragment:Reports and Papers on Malaria Contracted in England in 1917 and 1918, by [Henry Rose Carter ?], circa 1918

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 14
Identifier: 00814001
Scope and Contents

[Carter?] discusses the history of malaria in England.

Dates: circa 1918
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Report from Alexander N. Stark to the Surgeon General,  July 31, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 76
Identifier: 02076001
Scope and Contents

Stark takes over duties as Chief Sanitary Officer after Kean is taken ill by yellow fever. Stark describes his preventative measures against the spreading of the disease. He commends numerous individuals for their help in the epidemic. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  July 31, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report from J. F. Dunshie to the Chief Surgeon,  August 25, 1900

 Item — Box 21: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 4
Identifier: 02104001
Scope and Contents

Dunshie lists the cases of yellow fever at Guanajay Barracks, Cuba. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  August 25, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report from Rafael T. Echeverria to the Adjutant General,  July 16, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 57
Identifier: 02057001
Scope and Contents

Echeverria reports of medical activity in Marianao di Quemados de Marianao for the week ending July 14th, 1900. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  July 16, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report from Valery Havard to the Adjutant General,  July 22, 1901

 Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 16
Identifier: 02516001
Scope and Contents

Havard reports on the health situation of the troops in Cuba for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901.

Dates:  July 22, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report from Valery Havard to the Adjutant General,  June 18, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 35
Identifier: 02035001
Scope and Contents

Havard details the outbreak of yellow fever in Quemados de Marianao, Cuba in May 1900. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 18, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report from Walter Reed to the Adjutant General,  December 31, 1900

 Item — Box 23: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6
Identifier: 02306031
Scope and Contents

Reed details his duties for the month of December 1900. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  December 31, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records for Walter Reed

Report from Walter Reed to the Adjutant General,  July 31, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 75
Identifier: 02075001
Scope and Contents

Reed reports his duties for the month of July 1900 as President of the Board of Officers investigating infectious diseases and yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  July 31, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Report from William Crawford Gorgas to the Surgeon General,  August 14, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 82
Identifier: 02082001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas details the yearly deaths caused by yellow fever in the month of July, and states that the sanitary conditions for July 1900 are better than any time in the past ten years. His report includes two charts of deaths in Havana: “Deaths by Months for the Years 1890 to 1900” and “Arrivals and Departures of Passengers at Havana.”

Dates:  August 14, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed