Reminiscences of Warren Fales Draper : oral history, 1963.

Biographical Note

Physician.

Scope and Contents

Education: the art vs. the science of medicine; Public Health Service assistant surgeon on quarantine and coast guard duty; establishment of Hygienic Laboratory; pollution and shellfish study, World War I, disease control, 1918 flu epidemic, reserve corps for Public Health Service; organization of Virginia's county health departments; Assistant Surgeon General to Dr. Cumming; Virginia State Health Commissioner; relationship of Public Health Service to state and local health agencies; Lumsden's tuberculosis research, plague control measures, trachoma study, venereal disease education program under Public Health Service; World War II, disease control work in Europe; birth of National Institute of Health.

Subjects

• Draper, W. F. (Warren Fales), 1883-1970.
• Interviews.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Physicians--Interviews.
• Public health--Research.
• Public health--United States.
• Public health personnel--Interviews.
• United States. Public Health Service.

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