White, Joseph Hill, 1859-1953

Joseph Hill White, 1859-1953, a surgeon for the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service in New Orleans, led federal efforts to eradicate the aedes aegypti mosquito and quell a local epidemic of yellow fever in 1905. After employing inconsistent methods, the Orleans Parish Medical Society ceded authority to White and the Public Health Service in the campaign. Using recently acquired knowledge of yellow fever's cause, White's measures greatly lessened a potentially disastrous epidemic, the last yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans' history.

From the description of Methods used in controlling the 1905 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans, 1921. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14319046

Joseph Hill White, 1859-1953, a surgeon for the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service in New Orleans, led federal efforts to eradicate the aedes aegypti mosquito and quell a local epidemic of yellow fever in 1905. After employing inconsistent methods, the Orleans Parish Medical Society ceded authority to White and the Public Health Service in the campaign. Using recently acquired knowledge of yellow fever's cause, White"s measures greatly lessened a potentially disastrous epidemic, the last yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans" history.

White co-authored Control of hookworm infection at the deep gold mines of the Mother Lode, California with James G. Cumming in 1917.

From the guide to the Methods used in controlling the 1905 yellow fever epidemic in New Orleans, 1921, (History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine)