Annual ReportThe Foundation, 1919 - Social sciences |
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1920 APPROPRIA administration American appropriations areas average Brazil buildings campaign Central America Ceylon chenopodium China Medical Board Chinese clinical Commission Committee Cont'd control measures control of hookworm county health cured December 31 Director dispensaries districts doctors dose equipment Exhibit fellowships field five years beginning funds Government Guayaquil Harvard Medical School hemoglobin hookworm control hookworm disease hookworm infection infection survey Installment due 1919 institution International Health Board laboratory latrines malaria malaria control medical education medicine ment method Minas Geraes missionary Mississippi Mortgage mosquito Nicaragua Number Per Cent nurses organization patients Paulo PAYMENTS Peking Peking Union Medical percentage physicians pre-medical pre-medical school PRIOR APPROPRIA public health re-infection reported Rockefeller Foundation rural Salvador sanitary sanitation Santa Catharina São Paulo Shanghai Simon Flexner soil Southern staff Sunflower county thymol TIONS TIONS treatment tuberculosis Union Medical College United University yellow fever
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Page 23 - Mississippi malaria demonstrations, work was begun in co-operation with the local and state authorities and with the United States Public Health Service. The United States Public Health Service...
Page 78 - ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF WICKLIFFE ROSE, General Director JOHN A. FERRELL, MD, Director for the United States VICTOR G. HEISER, MD, Director for the East HECTOR H. HOWARD, MD, Director for the West Indies LW HACKETT, MD, Associate Regional Director (for Brazil) ERNST C. MEYER, PH.D., Director of Surveys and Exhibits AUTHORS...
Page 265 - Conference of the China Medical Missionary Association and the National Medical Association of China...
Page 7 - South, (14) prosecuted hookworm work in nine southe/n states and in eighteen foreign countries, (15) helped to expand antihookworm campaigns into more general health organizations in counties, states, and nations, (16) brought a war-time anti-tuberculosis work in France to the point where it could soon be left entirely in French hands, (17) assisted the government of Czechoslovakia to reorganize its public health laboratory system...
Page 20 - The contrast between the striking symptoms and swift mortality of yellow fever and the obtrusive but more protracted effects of malaria may easily conceal from the uninformed the real menace of the latter malady. Malaria is a crippling and deadly disease which attacks or threatens the 800,000,000 people who live within the zone of its influence. In India alone it is estimated that 1,300,000 die annually from its effects. The southern part of the United States, the whole of Mexico and Central America,...
Page 189 - Leptospira icteroides isolated earlier. The killed cultures of Leptospira icteroides were first used for protective inoculation against yellow fever in Guayaquil in 1918, where 427 vaccinations were carried out. The results were so encouraging (the morbidity rate among vaccinated and unvaccinated during the same period being 11 and 110 per thousand, respectively) that a vaccine several hundred times...
Page 49 - The war against disease is a world war. Commerce carries dangerous infections, as well as goods and ideas. The health problems of the remotest land concern all peoples. More and more, nations are coming to recognize their interdependence in health as in industry, government, science, and culture. There are even now foreshadowings of world-wide co-operation in combating the maladies which have long threatened humanity. For this new campaign leaders are needed to extend the frontiers of medical science,...
Page 46 - Children of the Public Health Committee of the New York Academy of Medicine.
Page 43 - Canadian schools. The Canadian people are our near neighbors. They are closely bound to us by ties of race, language, and international friendship; and they have without stint sacrificed themselves — their youth and their resources — to the end that democracy might be saved and extended. For these reasons, if your Board should see fit to use any part of this new gift in promoting medical education in Canada, such action would meet with my very cordial approval.
Page 63 - Foundation to have a part in this great movement by helping to increase the common store of knowledge about the causes of disease, and through demonstrations and the services of trained experts to diffuse this information as widely as possible among all peoples. Thus does the Foundation seek to fulfil its chartered purpose "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.