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Fever Fighters: The West Africa Yellow Fever Commission

Fever Fighters: The Staff of the West Africa Yellow Fever Commission[1]


Houses of Dr. Mahaffey and Dr. Beeuwkes, Lagos, Nigeria, January 20, 1933. Courtesy of NLM Profiles in Science.[2]	The West Africa Yellow Fever Commission operated from 1925 to 1934 and generally had eight members at a time with twenty-four members total over the nine-year period.[3]

●Dr. Henry Beeuwkes (1881-1956), Director, The John Hopkins School of Medicine, 1906 ●Dr. Henry Hanson (1877-1954), Field Investigation – Inspector – Nigeria ●Dr. A.F. Mahaffy (1891-1962), Field Investigation – Inspector – Lagos ●Dr. A.M. Walcott (1884-1962), Field Investigation – Inspector – Gold Coast – Carter’s 1921 letter recommends Walcott[4] ●Dr. Israel J. Kligler (1888-1944), Bacteriologist, Director of the Hygiene and Bacteriology Department at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School (Columbia University graduate) ●Dr. Oskar Klotz (1878-1936), Special Pathologist, Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology at the University of Toronto – Diary ●Dr. H.R. Muller, Pathologist and Bacteriologist ●Mr. Lawrence H. Dunn, Entomologist ●Mr. F.A. Bryant, Office Manager ●Mr. Frank P. Hogan, Secretary ●Mr. Wm. Glassounoff, Laboratory Technician ●Dr. Adrian Stokes (1887-1927), Pathologist, Guy’s Hospital, London, died of yellow fever ●Dr. Wilbur A. Sawyer (1879-1951), Interim Director for six months while Beeuwkes was on leave ●Dr. Johannes H. Bauer (1890-1961), Pathologist ●Dr. N. Paul Hudson, Pathologist and Bacteriologist ●Bryan R. Dyer, Survey assistant to Dr. Hanson ●Dr. Maurice Wakeman, Biochemistry and Internal Medicine ●Dr. C. Morrell, Biochemistry and Internal Medicine ●Mr. Philip, Entomology ●Dr. Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), Bacteriologist – Gold Coast, died of yellow fever ●Mr. Batchelder, Technician – Gold Coast ●Dr. Kumm, Clinician ●Dr. Theodore B. Hayne (1898-1930), Clinician, died of yellow fever ●Mr. Davis, Technician in Immunology ●Mr. C. Michaeloff, Assistant Secretary ●Dr. Ramsay, Statistician ●Dr. E.J. Scannell, Clinician

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●[1] H.J. Barrie, “Diary Notes on a Trip to West Africa in Relation to a Yellow Fever Expedition under the Auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1926 by Oskar Klotz,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History = Bulletin canadien d’histoire de la medicine 14, no.1(1997): 140, 153. ●[2] “Houses of Dr. Mahaffey and Dr. Beeuwkes, Lagos, Nigeria, January 20, 1933,” National Library of Medicine, Profiles in Science: Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers, http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/ResourceMetadata/LWBBGD (accessed July 25, 2012). ●[3] Greer Williams, The Plague Killers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969), 226-227. ●[4] Letter from Henry Rose Carter to Wickliffe Rose, May 13, 1921, Hench-Reed Collection, Historical Collections, CMHSL, University of Virginia, http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2222847 (accessed May 23, 2017). © 2007 Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Admin | Log in