Methods used in controlling the 1905 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans
Abstract
Joseph Hill White's two-page explanation of the methods he employed to eradicate a breakout of yellow fever in New Orleans in 1905.
Dates
- 1921
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Language of Materials
Collection materials primarily in English
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Biographical Note
Joseph Hill White, 1859-1953, a surgeon for the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service in New Orleans, led federal efforts to eradicate the aedes aegypti mosquito and quell a local epidemic of yellow fever in 1905. After employing inconsistent methods, the Orleans Parish Medical Society ceded authority to White and the Public Health Service in the campaign. Using recently acquired knowledge of yellow fever's cause, White"s measures greatly lessened a potentially disastrous epidemic, the last yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans" history.
White co-authored Control of hookworm infection at the deep gold mines of the Mother Lode, California with James G. Cumming in 1917.
Collection Summary
Joseph Hill White"s two-page explanation of the methods he employed to eradicate a breakout of yellow fever in New Orleans in 1905. His summary was submitted to Senior Surgeon Hiram W. Austin, of the Public Health Service, who intended to include it in his historical sketch of the Public Health Service.
Abstract
Joseph Hill White's two-page explanation of the methods he employed to eradicate a breakout of yellow fever in New Orleans in 1905.
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
General
- Processed by
- HMD Staff; Jim Labosier
- Processing Completed
- 2002
- Encoded by
- Jim Labosier
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Methods used in controlling the 1905 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans, 1921
- Status
- Unverified Partial Draft
- Author
- HMD Staff; Jim Labosier
- Date
- 2002
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Edition statement
- 1.0
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