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Charles P. Wertenbaker Letterbooks 1889-1913

The six letterbooks of Dr. Charles P. Wertenbakerin this collection contain approximately nine hundred items of correspondence, 1889-1913, while Wertenbaker was Medical Officer in Command of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, based in Wilmington, North Carolinaand Norfolk, Virginia, and concern his efforts in combatting yellow fever, small pox, and tuberculosis, and in improving general sanitation practices in the South. Included in some of the letterbooks, primarily as loose papers, are clippings, reports, speeches, and articles.

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Charles P. Wertenbaker Letterbooks 1889-1913

The six letterbooks of Dr. Charles P. Wertenbakerin this collection contain approximately nine hundred items of correspondence, 1889-1913, while Wertenbaker was Medical Officer in Command of the United States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, based in Wilmington, North Carolinaand Norfolk, Virginia, and concern his efforts in combatting yellow fever, small pox, and tuberculosis, and in improving general sanitation practices in the South. Included in some of the letterbooks, primarily as loose papers, are clippings, reports, speeches, and articles.

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