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Record Group Number: 000894
Series/Collection Number: .S 915
Creator: Florida. State Board of Health.
Title, Dates: Calvin T. Young diary on hookworm eradication campaign, 1910.
Amount: 1.00 v.
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Summary:     This series contains the diary of Dr. Calvin Todd Young (1878-1955), Assistant Health Officer for the State Board of Health, describing his activities during a hookworm eradication campaign covering several counties in Central Florida from January to April 1910. Young describes sites visited by the doctors and procedures followed during testing and diagnosis.  He records his experience at the schools and notes the cooperation of parents and teachers. Young often lists the number of cases he investigated, treatments and preventative practices he suggested, public health concerns he encountered, and the names of people he spoke or worked with. In addition to providing medical treatment for the disease, he strongly advocated rural sanitation.

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Additional Physical Form: This collection has been digitized and is available on the Florida Memory web site: https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/346839
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Electronic Records Access: https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/346839
Subject Access Fields: Public health Florida
Hookworm disease Florida
Communicable diseases Florida
Diaries. aat
Added Entries Young, C.T.