Title:

Wilbur A. Sawyer and his staff of the State Hygienic Laboratory in Hanford, California

Date:

16 April 1914

Description:

Sawyer became director of the State Hygienic Laboratory in Berkeley in 1910. He and his staff were responsible for tracing disease epidemics and halting their spread when possible. Here they posed together after tracking down the source of a typhoid epidemic in Hanford. Sawyer is fourth from right in photo. The caption on the back of the photograph reads "'Clean-up Squad,' Hanford, Cal. April 16, 1914. (Typhoid epidemic due to a carrier.)"

Location:

Box: 4. Folder: 7

Rights:

Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Subject:

Typhoid Fever, Public Health, and California

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy ID:

LWBBCJ

NLM ID:

101584931X28

Profiles Collection:

The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X28

Story Section:

Early Career in California and World War I, 1908-1919