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Title |
[Letter from Dr. Richard H. Lewis to Charles McIver about typhoid epidemic] |
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Date |
1899-12-11 |
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Creator |
Lewis, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1850-1926 |
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Subject headings |
University of North Carolina at Greensboro;McIver, Charles Duncan, 1860-1906 |
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Topics |
Teachers;UNCG; |
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Description |
A letter from the North Carolina State Board of Health member Dr. Richard H. Lewis to the Charles D. McIver, President of the State Normal and Industrial College. Dr. Lewis writes President McIver requesting the name and addresses of all dairies supplying butter to the college, and of their other customers.
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He mentions an anonymous letter signed "Friend of the College" who said that the [typhoid] fever came from the cows being pastured below the sewerage.
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Dr. Lewis then asks President McIver for a progress report on the situation. |
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Type |
Text |
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Original format |
Correspondence |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
UA2.1 Charles Duncan McIver Records, 1855-1906 |
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Series/grouping |
2.1: State Normal Records/Correspondence |
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Finding aid link |
http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/collections/university_archives/html/2_1.htm |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
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Additional rights information |
NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
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Object ID |
UA002.1.007 |
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Digital publisher |
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 |
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Transcript |
North Carolina
State Board of Health,
Office of the Secretary,
217 North Wilmington Street.
MEMBERS:
Geo. G. Thomas, M. D., President Wilmington.
S. Westray Battle, M. D., Asheville.
Henry W. Lewis, M. D., Jackson.
H. H. Dodson, M. D., Milton.
C. J. O'Hagan, M. D., Greenville.
J. L. Nicholson, M. D., Richlands.
Albert Anderson, M. D., Wilson.
A. W. Shaffer, Sanitary Engineer, Raleigh.
Richard H. Lewis, M. D., Sec. and Treas., Raleigh.
Raleigh, 12/11/99.
My dear Dr.McIver:-
Please send me the name and address of all the dairies from which you got butter for the College. I think I can assist you in the investigation on that line by utilizing quietly the superintendents of health. Also inform me if you can to what other points those same dairies shipped butter. I believe that the water, infected,almost certainly by the leaking sewer,was the cause of the fever,but we ought to look into the conditions of those dairies. We were speaking of it,you remember,when I was with you. I received this P.M.an anonymous letter signed"Friend of the College"in which the writer says:"for your private information you will find the cause of the feaver was pasturing the milch cows below the sewerage. The mlik and butter done the work" etc. Of course I will not pay any attention to it nor will answer Dr.Stamey in the Observer,but I will probably have something to say on that line in the next Bulletin.
Mrs. Randall called at my office this evening and reported what you were doing. I know you are overwhelmed but if you could spare a few minutes to your stenographer now and then I would thank you for occasional reports of progress. I learned from Mrs.R.with much regret of the condition of two of your sick and of Mrs.Bailey's illness.
You have my sincere sympathy.
Very truly yours,
Rich H. Lewis |
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CONTENTdm file name |
7705.jp2 |
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OCLC number |
872132179 |
UNCG University Archives
