Health boards

Jessie Ames will send Hench some of her husband's papers. She thinks the success of the yellow fever experiments depended on her husband and that he was not immune while he was nursing the volunteers. She was hurt by Kean and Ireland's lack of support for her husband being honored.

Ferrell is impressed by Carter's suggestions of field experiments for malaria control. He discusses funding issues.

Ferrell requests suggestions for the National Malaria Committee program.

Andrus discusses the yellow fever experiments and his own experience with inoculation.

Taylor enjoyed Hench's “Conquest of Yellow Fever” and sees nothing in it to correct. He claims that Finlay wrote about the Aedes aegypti mosquito as a means of yellow fever transmission in 1881 and gave the method and technique for experimentation. He details his own involvement as a yellow fever volunteer.

Benis thanks Kean for his assistance in public health projects.

LePrince reports on the malaria exhibit in Memphis, Tennessee. He mentions a malaria census in Shelby County, Tennessee.

LePrince writes to Carter about the ongoing anti-malaria work and a conference they attended. [enclosed: a note on the use of wave action to control mosquitoes]

[Laura Carter] sends Phalen notes on Henry Carter and his work. She notes that Henry Carter excluded his living host theory from his 1900 article for fear that such speculation would make the article less acceptable.

Laura Carter describes her visit to see Henry Carter in South America.

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]

Franck asks Kean to correct the enclosed copy of his answers to earlier questions, sign his name, and mail it to Hench. Kean adds a note to Hench, dated June 19, 1946, in which he recalls a portrait which was done of himself.

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

Fisher thanks Carter for his public health recommendations. He describes his anti-malaria work and tells of the prevalence of malaria at North and South Carolina sites.

Espinosa writes to Hench that he (Espinosa) has been appointed Director of Panamerican Doctors (Director de la Division de Relaciones Medicas y Sanitarias Panamericanas) at the Finlay Institute. Espinosa hopes that cooperation will continue between scientists in the United States and in Cuba.

Espinosa apologizes to Hench for the misunderstanding regarding Espinosa's letter of January 10, 1945, in which Hench mistakenly believed that he (Hench) had been appointed Director of Panamerican Doctors (Director de la Division de Relaciones Medicas y Sanitarias Panamericanas) at the Finlay Institute. Espinosa expresses his hope that Hench will continue to work closely with scientists in Cuba.

Fricks sends Rankin and Carter a copy of proposed impounded water health regulations.

Price writes about Carroll's experience in the military, particularly under the command of his father. He corrects misconceptions regarding his father's role in Carroll's career.

Ireland mentions Agramonte's death and requests that Truby and Kean write an accurate depiction of Agramonte's and Ames' work with the Yellow Fever Commission. He also describes a trip to France.

Connor describes the progress against yellow fever in Mexico. He would like to have Carter's yellow fever articles translated into Spanish.