Hugh S. Cumming Papers 1945-1977

Cumming, Hugh S. (Hugh Smith), 1869-1948

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Hugh S. Cumming joined the Marine Hospital Service as a physician in 1895. After serving in various U.S. Public Health Service quarantine stations, Cumming was promoted to Surgeon General of the Public Health Service in 1920. During the same year, he was appointed director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau. Cumming retired from the Public Health Service in 1936, but remained director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau until his death in 1948. From the description of Hugh S. Cummin...

World Health Organization . Country Office in Pakistan

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Parran, Thomas, 1892-1968

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Physician, Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas Parran : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451560 Thomas Parran, Jr. was born on September 28, 1892 and raised near St. Leonard's, Maryland, on his family's tobacco farm. He attended St. John's College in Annapolis (1911, A.B.; 1915, A.M.). Finances influenced his decision to attend Georgetown (1915, M.D.) and to follow with an...

Calderwood, Howard B. (Howard Black), 1898-

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The World Health Organization (WHO) was established in 1948 in response to the health effects and technical advances during World War II. It absorbed its prececessor, the Health Organization of the League of Nations. WHO exists within general framework of the United Nations, designed as a "single specialized agency with a high degree of independence." (from "Development and constitution of the W.H.O." Chronicle of the World Health Organization, vol. 1, no. 1, 1947). Howard Calderwood was a membe...