Public Health Commons^™

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Jones, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Letter from Mattie McLean to Ollie [Olive] Jones former mathematics teacher at WKU regarding appropriations, construction, former and current teachers at WKU and the diseases of measles, influenza, scarlet fever and smallpox.

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Bradner, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Letter from Mattie McLean to Mrs. G.W. Bradner regarding her son Raymond's bout with smallpox. The letter describes how students are quarantined in a building on the edge of campus for a period of time prescribed by doctors.

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence Re: Smallpox, J. O. Forman, Mattie Mclean

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence between J.O. Forman and Mattie McLean regarding the quarantine of Forman's son Guy in the Pest House during smallpox outbreak at WKU.

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Holeman, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence of Sadie Holeman and Mattie McLean regarding work at Frisbie Hall, smallpox cases and the renting out of Holeman's cottage in Cherryton.

Transcription of Letter 1:

Will be in school this summer anyway.

Lebanon Jct., Ky.

March 3^rd 1926
Miss Mattie McLean
Dear Miss Mattie:

I have heard that Frisbie Hall might be in need of a matron, and am would like to put in an application for the place. I know you remember me and I would appreciate it very much if you would use your influence with Mr. Dr. Cherry in getting the place for me. …

Ua3/1/2/1 Correspondence - Ashcraft, Wku President's Office - Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence between C.A. Ashcraft and Henry Cherry regarding the bout of scarlet fever Eva Ashcraft endured.

Transcript of C.A. Ashcraft's letter:

Brandenburg, Ky.
Jan. 9, 1926

Pres. H.H. Cherry
Bowling Green, Ky.

Dear Sir:
I write to you concerning my daughter Eva who is attending your school. You know I wrote to you last summer to know if you would make any concession in charges for this years term because of the fact she go so little good from last spring's term. You know she had Scarlet fever and it dug deep on her finances as we could not come …

Ua3/1/2/1 Letter To Grace Lindsey, Henry Cherry

WKU Administration Documents

Letter to Grace Lindsey from Henry Cherry regarding hospital work. Cherry indicates that WKU will not have a hospital, but the city of Bowling Green has voted to build one.

Ua3/1/2/2 Correspondence, Henry Cherry, K. L. Varney

WKU Administration Documents

Correspondence between Henry Cherry and K.L. Varney regarding a meeting scheduled and rescheduled due to the influenza epidemic. Cherry's letter discusses the conditions in Bowling Green and at Western Kentucky University.

Summary Of Two Years' Study Of Insects In Relation To Pellagra, Allan H. Jennings

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Excerpt:

With the growing interest in pellagra, following the authoritative recognition of its presence in the United States in 1907, the study of its etiology was taken up by various investigators and the several theories of causation were subjected to close scrutiny.

Prominent among these theories was that of insect transmission, first advanced by Sambon, who limited this function to the species of blood-sucking gnats comprising the genus Simulium.

The importance of the disease and the possibility of such a factor in its causation, led the Bureau of Entomology, late in 1911, to undertake an investigation of the subject …

Dr. Nott's Theory Of Insect Causation Of Disease, William A. Riley

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

Excerpt:

The danger in using isolated sentences from an article as a basis for interpreting the author's theories, is generally recognized, but sometimes the most careful workers fall into the trap. Once the mistaken interpretation is published, it may be copied over and over again until it rises to the dignity of a dogma.

A striking illustration is afforded by the practical unanimity with which writers on the subject of insects and disease credit Dr. Josiah Nott with being the earliest to formulate definitely the theory of mosquito transmission of yellow fever.

Nuttall, in his classic monograph On the Role …

Ua45/2 Student Register 1912-1913 Index, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

Index to WKU Registrar’s Student Register 1912-1913. The book records the following information:

• Date
• Student name
• Number
• Post Office
• County
• Appointee from
• State
• Enrollment I/S
• Days Taught
• Vaccinated
• Tuition & Fees Paid
• Number of Terms Enrolled
• Remarks

Ua25 Lease To Kentucky Board Of Health, Wku Finance & Administration

WKU Administration Documents

Contract between WKU and the Kentucky Board of Health to lease rooms in Recitation Hall for four years.

Contract, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Contract to rent third story right rear wing of Recitation Hall to the State Board of Health of Kentucky and a laboratory in the right front wing.

Health Conditions In Southwest Texas, Arthur E. Spohn

Gulf Coast Line Magazine

Discusses the region's landscape, water sources, climate, diseases, and typical health conditions of people living in the region. Includes image of Mexican laborers clearing chapparal. Photo by Wheelus.

Ms021: Sworn Oath Affirming No Exposure To Yellow Fever In The Past 20 Days, George D. Neal

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Sworn oath signed by George Neal of Navasota City, TX, attesting he had not been in an infected district or community with yellow fever in the past 20 days. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: The Climate Of Texas In Relations To The Distribution Of Diseases And The Effects Of Climate And Weather Changes In Causing Diseases And Deaths, Issac Monroe Cline

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Book, "The Climate of Texas in Relations to the Distribution of Diseases and the Effects of Climate and Weather Changes in Causing Diseases and Deaths", by Dr. Isaac Cline, published by Strickland Printing Company. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Yellow Fever Quarantine Proclamation, James S. Hogg

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Quarantine Proclamation issued by the Governor of Texas, J.S. Hogg, declaring a quarantine against the City of Brunswick, Georgia, due to yellow fever epidemic. Signed and sealed by J.S. Hogg. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Science., W. M. James

United States Public Health Resources

Census of Hallucinations

May I ask for the publicity of your pages to aid me in procuring co-operation in a scientific investigation for which I am responsible? I refer to the "Census of Hallucinations," which was begun several years ago by the Society for Psychical Research, and of which the International Congress of Experimental Psychology at Paris, last summer, assumed the future responsibility, naming a committee in each country to carry on the work.

The object of the inquiry is twofold: lst, to get a mass of facts about hallucinations which may serve as a basis for a scientific study …

Journal: Harper's Weekly, Article On St. Luke's And Sand Hills Hospital Fever Outbreak, Jacksonville, Florida; September 29, 1888

Print Materials from the Richard Mette Collection

Excerpt and illustration from Harper's Weekly detailing the Yellow Fever outbreak in Jacksonville, Florida. Volume XXXII., No. 1658. Mette #31

What Ought The People Of A Community To Do To Help Their Local Board Of Health?, Charles N. Hewitt

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

The Duty Of Scientific Societies To Aid In Practical Sanitary Work, Charles N. Hewitt

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Ms021: Correspondence, Henry Eustice Mccullough

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Letter written by Henry McCulloch on TX Institute for Deaf and Dumb letterhead to Governor Frank R. Lubbock requesting help getting General W.P. Harrison to run for treasurer. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Notice To Clean/Sanitize Property Issued By The Office Of The Health Physician In Galveston, Tx, George W. Peete

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Notice from Office of the Health Physician in Galveston, TX, issued to W.G.? To clean Lot No. 5 and empty privy on or before May 21, 1875, or be held liable to fines and penalties imposed by city ordinance, signed by G.W. Peete. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Hospital Ledger, St. Mary's Infirmary

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Hospital ledger listing patients admitted and treated during the month of January 1871 at the rate of 75 cents per day, signed by Dr. C.H. Wilkinson. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Receipt For Medical And Post-Mortem Services, Greenville S. Dowell

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Receipt for medical services, medications, and post-mortem rendered to Lena? Hamilton, female prisoner, by Dr. Dowell, Coroner. Inscription at bottom asks the County Court to raise his salary from $20 to $40 a month and to continue to furnish medicine. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Receipt For Medicine Purchased, E F. Schmidt

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Receipt for drugs, medications bought and paid for by Mr. Oehring from E.F. Schmidt, druggist and apothecary. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Correspondence, William R. Smith

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Correspondence written by Dr. William R. Smith to Judy? offering sympathy and condolences for the death(s)? Of family members also writes of his own illness from yellow fever in Galveston and talks about the medical care he has provided to victims, namely soldiers, of the yellow fever epidemic, Dickson Bayou, TX. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Receipt For Medical Services Rendered, J. B.O. Lancton

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Receipt for medical services rendered, See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Probate Claim, Thomas C. Cook

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Claim filed against Estate of M.W. (illegible) for medical services rendered by Dr. Cook. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Probate Claim, John J. Walter

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Claim filed against Estate of W. M.? For medical services rendered (cupping, bleeding, and injections). See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Probate Claim, Thomas J. Heard (1814-1899)

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

robate claim filed against Estate of Matthew W. Marin for medical treatment renderd to decedent by Dr. Heard, See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.