Health Organisation Correspondence 1926-1938

League of Nations Health Organisation

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The Health Section of the League of Nations originated at the Fourth Assembly of the League of Nations in 1923. Its primary purpose was to help control the spread of epidemics. The United States, not a member of the League, had no official representation. Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming, however, believed the United States needed to participate. The United States was a member of the International Office of Public Health, which was established in 1908 and based in Paris. Upon formation of the Lea...

Buchanan, George Seaton, Sir, 1869-1936.

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Clark, Taliaferro, 1867-

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United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...