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Carter reports on the yellow fever epidemic in the department of Lambayeque, including nature of epidemic and campaign.

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Selected pages of the report give statistics regarding deaths in Havana. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...

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Carter reports on yellow fever in Venezuela and Colombia.

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Griffitts describes a house-to-house search to determine the number and type of mosquitoes, as well as the number of people stricken with malaria.

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Muller describes the liver of a suspected yellow fever case.

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Miller reports on a possible yellow fever outbreak in Colombia.

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Muller describes the liver of a suspected yellow fever case.

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Muller states that it is difficult to determine if the liver is from a yellow fever case.

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Muller's pathology report on West African fever cases include tentative diagnoses.

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In this pathology report Muller describes the liver and kidney from a patient, and states that the case was probably not yellow fever.

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Kean writes about Lena A. Warner's refusal to care for an officer's wife.

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[Carter] proposes that the International Health Commission carry out an experiment involving the control of malarial mosquitoes. He includes a detailed procedure for such an experiment.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Henry Rose Carter consists of materials relating to Henry Rose Carter that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1880 to 1932 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1883 to 1932. The series is particularly rich in materials that document Henry Rose Carter's professional activities in the last eleven years of his life (1914-1925). These materials include, but are not limited to the...

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This handwritten account of Reed's military history includes a listing of his military orders from 1875 through 1894. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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This document summarizes Reed's promotions and military stations. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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This report gives a brief description of Reed's titles and duties for the year 1900. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

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Carter discusses needed mosquito-control work in Guayaquil and the endemic focus of yellow fever. He believes that the local population will cooperate, and so work should proceed. The city should be provided with a proper water supply to ensure continued success of the work.

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This report describes the route and the outbreak of malaria on the steamship “Garth Castle.”

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Rath describes the Rojas family estate and the adjoining Camp Lazear in terms of their historic significance. He discusses preservation difficulties in Cuba, and outlines Rojas' suggestion that Building No. 1 be taken down and rebuilt on her San Jose property. Rojas would like both properties to be taken over by the American National Trust, and for the Trust to help in setting up a Cuban-American foundation to preserve the property.