Letter and report with appendixes from Oliver L. Pothier to Joseph H. White relating to the Rockefeller Foundation's investigation of the epidemic of Bucaramanga, Columbia August 20, 1923

Containers:

Box 11, Folder 38

Extent:

25 pages

Scope and content:

Pothier sends White his final report on the 1923 Yellow Fever Commission inspection tour of Colombia. He describes travel, meetings with government officials, and incidence of yellow fever and mosquitoes. A series of appended documents [two in Spanish] discuss preparations for the trip, the suspected epidemic in Bucaramanga, individual yellow fever cases, and further details of the tour.

Language:

English

Subjects:

Health boards
Diseases
Government
Mosquitoes
Physicians
Public health
Social history
Tropical medicine
Yellow fever
letters (correspondence)
reports

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