Recent researches concerning the etiology, propagation, and prevention of yellow fever, by the United States Army Commission / by Walter Reed.

  • Walter Reed
Date:
1902
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    eS. Journal st Hyeens , | 702, 2. VotumE II 1 APRIL, 1902 (Three Charts.) By WALTER REED, M.D., Surgeon, U.S. Army, President of the Commission. THE efficient control of the spread of yellow fever is a matter of such vast practical importance, both from the hygienic and commercial point of view—not only for the countries where this disease prevails as an epidemic, but also for those in which, after importation, it may assume epidemic proportions—that it has seemed appropriate to bring together in this paper a summary of the work thus far accomplished by the United States Army Commission? on the Island of Cuba, during the years 1900 and 1901, in order that English and Colonial readers who have not, perhaps, had access to the original contributions published in different American journals, may be able to form an intelligent opinion concerning the permanent value of this work. It will also afford opportunity for recording the more recent confirmatory observations made by others concerning the mode of transmission of yellow fever discovered by the Commission, and for calling attention to the results already obtained by the U.S. Army Medical Department in the suppression of this disease, especially in the city of Havana, through the enforcement of sanitary measures based on these later researches. The American Commission was organized in May 1900, and began its investigations during the following month (June), being equipped with suitable laboratory facilities for practical work, both at the 1 The members of this Commission were Major Walter Reed, Surgeon, U.S. Army, and Drs James Carroll, A. Agramonte, and the late Dr Jesse W. Lazear, Contract Surgeons, U.S. Army. Journ. of Hyg. u 8
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