George St. John Perrott Papers 1920-1980

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George St. John Perrott Papers 1920-1980

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Consists of correspondence, interviews, memoranda, talks and lectures, proceedings and minutes of conferences, reprints, and related miscellaneous publications.

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History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

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Group Health Association of America

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Perrott, George St. J. (George St. John), 1893-1980

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Chemist, government official. From the description of Reminiscences of George St. John Perrott : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419169 Perrott, a biostatistician, directed the National Health Survey of 1935-1936. He was with the U. S. Public Health Service from 1933-1958, and from 1962-1975 worked with the Group Health Association of America. From the description of George St. John Perrott papers, 1920-19...

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...