Title:

Letter from Wilbur A. Sawyer to Margaret Sawyer

Creator:

Sawyer, Wilbur A.

Recipient:

Sawyer, Margaret

Date:

20 February 1927

Description:

Dr. Sawyer was in West Africa from December 1926 to mid-June 1927, serving as director of the West African Yellow Fever Commission while Dr. Henry Beeuwkes was on leave. In this letter, he described preparations for an investigation of nearby yellow fever cases, and some experiments he and Dr. Johannes Bauer had made with leptospira bacteria, which were considered the likely causative organism of yellow fever at the time.

Location:

Box: 2. Folder: 7

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Yellow Fever

Format:

Text

Extent:

3 pages

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

LWBBLL

NLM ID:

101584931X177

Profiles Collection:

The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X177

Story Section:

From Hookworm to Yellow Fever: Rockefeller Foundation, 1919-1927