Health boards

Hench has recently found four photographs in trunks belonging to the daughter-in-law of James Carroll. He would like Lambert's help in identifying buildings and people in the photographs.

Hench wants to know if McCoy is still alive. He discusses the biography by Hagedorn which credits Wood with the suggestion that led Sternberg to form the Yellow Fever Commission.

Hench poses questions regarding the yellow fever experiments because he knows that Kean had connections with Reed.

Hench introduces himself to Rice and discusses his planned book on the conquest of yellow fever. Hench wishes to purchase a copy of Rice's biography of J.W. Hurty because there is a photograph of the room in which Reed presented his paper, in 1900. He inquires if Rice knows where Reed stayed in Indianapolis for the 1900 conference.

Dickinson proposes an alteration to the text of Kelly's book concerning Brooklyn Hospital. Dickinson provides a quotation from the hospital minutes of 1871 regarding Walter Reed's appointment.

Matas provides references on yellow fever, and gives information on his own work and experience with the disease.

Blue orders Carter to North Carolina to investigate malaria and propose control measures.

Blue orders Carter to attend a conference in Columbia, South Carolina.

Blue instructs Carter to write a memorandum describing a proposed investigation, in South Carolina.

Blue assigns LePrince and Carter to investigate malarial conditions in South Carolina.

Blue expresses his condolences for the death of Henry Carter.

Griffitts writes that he would like to be assigned to North Carolina.

Griffitts writes that he has surveyed a power company pond and makes recommendations for malaria prevention measures.

The Chief Quarantine Officer relates information on a case of yellow fever and notes disagreement over the diagnosis.

Carroll is to report to Dewitt for examination before the Army Medical Board. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Agramonte is notified that his letter has been received and filed for future reference. Agramonte's letter of August 31, 1908, is included, testifying to the sequence of events in the work carried out by the Army Board on Yellow Fever. Included are two notes by Truby. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Lyster requests Carter's comments on a circular for the fish campaign and on the Rockefeller Foundation's methods in the Latin American yellow fever campaigns.

Frost asks Russell for a copy of Carter's work on yellow fever.

Reed expresses his love for his dispersed family, and notes that it has been one year since he met her. Reed will delay taking his medical exam.

Reed writes that he misses her. Reed's step-mother is in Norfolk and may visit Murfeesboro - Emilie Lawrence's hometown. He has received his commission from Army Medical Corps.