Robert Leslie [sound recording] : an oral history / interviewed by Dana Gumb, Aug. 14, 1985.

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Robert Leslie [sound recording] : an oral history / interviewed by Dana Gumb, Aug. 14, 1985.

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Interview with Robert Leslie by Dana Gumb on Aug. 14, 1985 on Leslie's service with the Public Health Service on Ellis Island. Leslie, a PHS physician, was a volunteer translator assisting with triaging new arrivals.

1 sound cassette.

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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...

Leslie, Robert L., 1885-1987

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Gumb, Dana.

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