Reminiscences of George St. John Perrott : oral history, 1963.

Biographical Note

Chemist, government official.

Scope and Contents

Education; chemical warfare work, World War I; chief chemist for explosives, Bureau of Mines; study of health and the Depression; Works Progress Administration national health survey; Social Security Act; establishment of National Health Program; reorganization of Division of Public Health methods; establishment of Cancer Institute and of Research Planning Council; changing personnel and policies of Public Health Service; research grants study section procedures.

Subjects

• Cancer--Research.
• Chemists--Interviews.
• Health services administrators--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• Perrott, George St. J. (George St. John), 1893-1980.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Public health--United States.
• Social security--United States.
• United States. Public Health Service.