Reminiscences of Wilson George Smillie : oral history, 1964.

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Reminiscences of Wilson George Smillie : oral history, 1964.

Education; hookworm control in South, establishment of local health departments; Public Health Service role, increasing governmental involvement in research; development of Public Health Service: schools, standardized training; role of voluntary agencies; preventive medicine; birth control.

Transcript: 61 leaves.

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Smillie, Wilson G. (Wilson George), 1886-1971

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Wilson George Smillie : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131382 ...

Phillips, Harlan B.

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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...