Annual ReportThe Foundation, 1920 |
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1920 APPROPRIA administration American appropriations Assistant average Brazil buildings campaign cent Central America chenopodium China Medical Board Chinese clinical Colombia Commission control of hookworm county health December 31 Director dispensary doctors Ecuador epidemic equipment examined Exhibit fellowships field fish five years beginning foreign found infected funds Government harbored Harvard Medical School health departments health officers hemoglobin hookworm disease hookworm infection hospital Hygiene and Public Instalment due 1920 Institute International Health Board laboratory larvae latrines malaria malaria control medical education medicine ment Mexico Missionary Mortgage mosquito National Nicaragua nurses organization Paulo Peking Union Medical persons physicians pre-medical school PRIOR APPROPRIA public health quinine Research Rockefeller Foundation rural Salvador sanitary sanitation Santa Catharina São Paulo School of Hygiene Simon Flexner soil South Southern staff survey towns treatment tuberculosis Union Medical College United University vaccine worms yellow fever
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Page 33 - For the several employments and offices of our fellows we have twelve that sail into foreign countries under the names of other nations (for our own we conceal), who bring us the books, and abstracts, and patterns of experiments of all other parts. These we call merchants of light.
Page 159 - THE department of medical zoology of the school of hygiene and public health of the Johns Hopkins University...
Page 8 - South, (14) prosecuted hookworm work in nine southern states and in eighteen foreign countries, (IS) 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 252 - Conference of the China Medical Missionary Association and the National Medical Association of China...
Page 13 - Foundation continued a quarter-million annual appropriation to the School of Hygiene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University...
Page 42 - Map used in anti-malaria campaign in Louisiana. Each dot represents a death from malaria. The public health importance of malaria, however, is more accurately measured by the sickness rate and the loss of efficiency than by the loss of life. It has been estimated that for each death 2,000 to 4,000...
Page 77 - 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 57 - Knowledge is being applied more effectively to the problems in the field. Governments are sending attaches of hygiene into each other's territories. Vital statistics on an international scale are being reported more accurately. Prompt notification of epidemics is being facilitated. Outposts against plague and other diseases are being stationed and supported. Leaders and technical experts are in training in larger numbers and under more favorable conditions. Fundamental medical education is becoming...
Page 236 - Dr. Henry S. Houghton, formerly dean of the Harvard Medical School of China, was elected to succeed him and was formally inaugurated in September, 1921.
Page 7 - Foundation (1) aided six medical schools in Canada, (2) gave a large sum to a medical training center in London, (3) appropriated a million francs for the Queen Elisabeth Foundation for Medical Research in Belgium, (4) agreed to contribute toward the complete rebuilding of the medical school of the University of Brussels, (5) provided American and English medical journals or laboratory supplies for eleven medical schools and medical libraries in five European countries, (6) continued...