4     - _     .9-
Jan3.1 Jule being tired and sleepy I came to the
office alone in the afternnon and found Jarrett
hard at work.  Most of afternoon was spent
on expense books for November and December.

Jen. 3.  Dr. end Mrs. M. P. Arrive from S. &ulo
Iuneh at home.

Jen. 4. MP and 6&a to Nichtheroy for the day.
Meet Dr. Otto Olsen of the Secretariat of the
League of Nations who is here following up visit
of Rajkcman and Madsen last year and is attempt&g
to get a coordinated system of reporting on infant
mortality in sample districts of various countries.
Is eleo going to visit Argentina and Chile on
this trip.

Dinner and% discus&on with Cept. and Mrs.
Babcock.

Jan. 5.  Dr. Olsen, Mrs. E. Parsons, Dr. end
Mrs. M.P. for dinner.  0.0. was vQry much disturbed
by Mrs. EP asking if the US were going to cogperete
on infant mortality study. HP gives some leaves
from history of R.F. in S.P$(ANeiva in 1918
was called from I6~ng$inhos to me&or of
SP of S .a. Neive was-ether than
        ed to essu@xontrol of R.F. work.
       ned indepenm. %ter when
        d out of S.P. he requested fellow-
ship for general study of &4merican conditions
from RF.
because 1) This Hackett refused to grant
       the R.F. did not see value of such


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study and second) because RF oould not openly
give premium trip to party unfriendly:.to new
government.  Since then Neive has been anti R.F.
Salles Gomes was director of Prophylaxis Rural.
mt like him and wished to send to US
at cost of R.F. to study trachoma but mostly to
get him out of country so- could be appointed. JT&&j-J&-J-J
MP was to have been this substitute but warned
SC of proposed move.  Then R.F. refused fellowship
and SG bec$% anti-R.F.

Iunch at Jockey Club with Nave.

Jan. 6.  Dr. MP and Manuel Ferreira to unch
at office today.  HM returns from S e
                         Pa lo.
Dinner at Copacabana Hotel. To Casino

afterwards with Dr.,and &s. Mario and Dr. and
Mrs. Muench.
bo d Geor e and family were dining at the
hoteMks like his cartoons but is
whiter headed than we expected.

Jan. 7.  Somerncessarg sleeping done in the PM
To dinner at Brahma Restaurant with Mp and I@  +Li%.Gw
                                            ~6hcr-

Jan. 8.  MP and MP J.$) and FS go to 12X Mass
at Candelaria Church. So named from large
number of candles (58) pyramided to a peak and
surmounted by the figure of Mary and the Christ
child.

To ticelsior and Vista Chineaa in the PM.

Jan. 9.  Dr. Fraga denies         of article
of Jan 4 in Correio de Mt$  which said that
R.F. was not further interested in new work in
Braail.

Jan. 10.  Letter from Ricsrd reports finding
stained mosquitoes 5 kilometers from point of
I#beration in Led&a.  A large number have been
found at one and & and 2 kilometers from hatcheries.
Iunch with Mario, Tomas and Muench.
Dinner at I.25 Bolivar with Ws after long swim
sky and sea were gorgeously colored.  MP's take
train at 10 PM for S Paulo.

Jan. 11.  Mrs. Parsons, Miss Johns n, Miss Schwarte,
           @iii
Miss Dawson and Mr. Scobie of NCR  ve picnic
supper at 125 Boliver.  E%nani comes to Rio -
goes to Bahia tomorrow.

Jan. 12.  Spend morning at office - Iunch at
home.  Arrive on board Alcantara but a few minutes
before sailing at 3 PM. The Alcantara is a


large new'mtor ship of the R.M.S.P. This is
the last time this boat is to stop at Bahia snd
Recife as from now on it is to compete with
other European fast boats and will make the
trip Rio-Lisbon direct. The word "Alcantara"
must be moorish.  In the tea room is a beautiful
painting of the @Alcantara Bridge," Toledo, Spain.
Among those on board I have met, Dr. Fragd,"
Barros Barreto, Afranio Peixoto, Wa%de#mar
Antunes, Ernani Agricola, Borgzs Viera, Placid0
Barbosa, Pedro Alberque   8, E@ico Rangel,
Felicio Torres, Miguel Co T to, Anmury de Medeiros
Emygdio Mattes, Henrique Arag%, Theophilo de
Almeida, Otto Olsen.

Aa beaten at chess by Eugenio Coutinho.
Leorne Meneschal directs P. Rural in Alagoas.  !+AwF
Met Dr. Miguel Cohto for the first time today.
A most pleamity.

Jan. 13. Am sitting at table with Dr. Ernani,
Dr. Waldemar Antunes and Dr. Erico Raagell.

This evening Dr. Otto Olsen presented me to
Dr. Rocha Lima who has been working for almost
20 years in the Institute of Tropical Diseases of
Hamburg.  Ieter I met Mrs. Lima and Mrs. H.
Aragao.  Dr. Lima is most pleasing to meet.  fff
Both he and Dr. Aragao show great interest in the
latest regarding yellow fever in A@.ca llnd  Jr
the          R- q&&yh;Iygyj"?lmhYnJCVyl
Jan. 14.  Arrival in Bahia.  Beet Dr.-
de Es arros, Dr. Biao, Dr. Guedes Pereira, Dr.
Burke and DhConnor. Dr. Aratijo of
Inst. OS. Crux of Bahia, Dr. &@&es--, Barros
Barrett0 and others.

Dr. Amanry de Medeiros gives the opening
oration on Bahia!

C. Fraga speaks well of C.R. and especially
calls attention to promise of saneamento for
Bahia made by the governor.
Dr.d#L Barros Barrett0 challenges the ,%   ress
to look over his work and "take it or leav 2 ,&4
as they wish.

The new building for the Saude is very nice.
The old entrance is from 1674 - the door and
the wooden banisters on the sides of the stairway
are ancient and very good. The building is decorated
inside and out with old tile. Those in the
directors office are especially effective. The
central stair case is very cramped in comparison
with the rest of the building. The CFA has a
room which is furnished by CFA on second floor.

Jan. 15.  Office Sunday AM.  Rocha Lima lecture
on Pathology of yf.  Peculiar type of distribution


of necrosis makes possible definite diagnosis of
yf from all other diseases - Necrosis in yf  \
is ne@her central nor peripheral but is disseminated
in the intermediary zone.

  Mske calls in PM on ver ous Brazilian doctors.
Beet Dr. Costa Pinto end S L a.  Leave card for
Mrs. Waugh.  Dr. Hackett's secretary.
To Born Fim fiesta with Dr. P. Alberquerque

Dr. Bieo, Dr. Burke and -engineer.  Drs.
Connor and Burke explain maps and new jars.  1

Jan. 16.  Dr. Connor shows me work of guarda in
sane 92.  Eight houses, 1 steg focus - monthly \
cycle.  All porrij'es m&t have spigot and be sealed
attop.  Kerosene tins end small morin&s are
considered fairly safe.  Leave sane early for  1
conference with Drs Fraga end Barros Barretto.
Dr. Connor outlines the program for the-
futu?ceYas fom I  mnt program in
%rahgbs Natal Recife*and Bahia until July when
new survey willb made and further reductions
made if conditions warrant. 2. Work will be
definite  continued in Bahia until Jan 1, 1929
against $",
   edes #ypti$arvae.  CFA will also look      -8
after oiling f& cillex on private premises, the   'r
DNSP to furnish the oil.
control only.)    (Our funds for yf

Dr. Frege agrees that CFA shall have full autho-

rity to inspect all boats and craft in bay for  I
breeding of stegomyie.                                   I
Dr. Gouveia de Berros and later Dr. Fraga
visit office of CFA.

  Talked with Connor over mathematical side of     j
Yf .  What is critical index of stegomyie?
Made calls.

Evening session of congress devoted to Berros
Barreto lecture on acute infectious diseases
of childhood in Braail.

Jan. 17.  22 houses no steg. foci with Guarde
91. (Burke, Connor, Bieo, Soper) total today
74 houses with 1 steg. breeding.)

Visit to Institute Oswald0 Crua. Dr. Aranjo
says that he found leptospira in the 2nd rat  1
examined in Bahia and that a large percentage   ;
of wild rats are infected. He shows a jaundiced '
guinea p&g end cultures of ictero hemorrhagis3L

Dinner at house of Governor Goes Calmon.

Jan. 18. Inspection in oone wfti Dr. Ro&.Lbw
l4 houses 1 focus of stegomyie ie one house with
3 tanks for chickens and ducks breeding.
Lima impressed w&i&the small amount of            :
hanalie carried by the guarda.


Afternoon eeseian devoted to

--______ -_- ___---- --..                 ched,
                      o

                      r. Vienna Junior
                           -

Visit Institute geographic0 (Dr. Magalhaes)
too late to see more than the setting sun back of
the palms end across the bay. Very beautiful
sky colorings.  Evening visit to top of Nova
Cintra to see Bahia by night.

Dr. Gouvee de Barros gives paper on work in
Recife mentioning especial
(jarrae) end malaria.         typhoid

Jan. 19.  To be last day of Congress. Find heavy
breeding of stegs end culex on ab%doned ship
and of#&.l.ex in abandoned tanks of cotton factory.
I hold down the chair while Olsen of the League
of Nations discourses on their work in Public
Health.  Speech of Afrenio Peixoto on the most
beautiful story in the world eulogizes Connor
among other heroes of Hygiene.  Connor not  I
                                                        i

present to hear it.  Ball et the Palace of
Acclamepab afterwards, To bed et 2 AM.

Jan 20.  Up end et 'em at 5:30 AM. Dr. Emygdio
Mattes end Dr. H. Aregao visit yellow fever work
at 7 AM.  Find steg focus on roof of the Asylum.
At 9:30 Dr. C Fraga end Dr. A. Frege visit houses
around the square of the Church of Born Fin.
A loyal son of Bahia does not return to Bahia   i
without paying his respects to the Senhor de
Born Fim.  The church has many wax reproductions
of cured portions of the human body end many     ;
                                                         3
photographs end paintings. One painting of a        '
blue eyed boy who was saved from yellow fever
in 1892; three photos of a 15 kilo ovarian cyst  /

operation from which the patient recovered showing
different stages of the $aparotomy end giving
the names etc., of the doctors who did the
operation.

3 PM inal reception of farewells at the palace.
Dr. Ama$ $4 , Dr. Torres, D.A. Peixoto end Dr. A.
L. Barros Barret#!o made speeches.

Dr. Weldemar dines with me et the Fishhouse.
Food mediocre, price high. Zeelandia takes
Congressistos back to Rio.

Jan. 21.  Saturday.  Downtown in AM end Tennis
in PM.

Jan. 22.  English cemetery - yf cases - churches
of Bahia with Dr. Connor - to Rio Vermelho in
PM. Cell on WeugHs.


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      7
Jan. 23.  I breeding plant protectors found in
1 house out of 20 houses visited. Farewell to
Dr. A. L, Hanros Barretto.

  The city of Bahia is now divided into 72
districts each district containing approximately
the number of houses which one man can visit-in-- -
a we&.  There are now 18 m on regular service
which gives a 4 week cycle of inspection. The
~IHHW works from 7 AM to 1 PM without inter-
mission and then is off for the day. Routine
house inspections are carried out only 5 days
in the week.  Fiscelioetion of the work of the
nurse is very severe there being 5 guarde chefes
assigned to this service.  There are also special
guardes assigned to the problem of checking up
stegomyie foci in vacant houses end to the control
of breeding in "places of congregationa ia.
hotels, restaurants, pensions, theaters, railwey
stations, Lhhools, barracks end churchee.
yt is interesting to note that during the
-that I had the opportunity of working
with the guarde we found no breeding in water
tanks in the houses and only once in the clay
jar.  The foci found were, 1 jerra, 1 roof gutter,
1 open hull of semi-abandoned ship, 3 containers
of water for chicks end chickens (all same
house) end 7 clay pots for protecting plants
from ants (all same house.)

  This indicates that the tanks are in the
majority of cases sealed end that the recent
campaign to::provide all jars with spigots end
sealed cloth covers has aroused interest in end
centered attention on the jars.  Spigots are
giing in byi.the hundreds and this promises to

L hehp control the jerras. Dr. Connor feels that
with the number of possible breeding places reduced
to their present number that an increased house
index will not be dangerous provided always that
places of congregation are carefully controlled.

Jan 24.  Spend AM purchasing tickets on 8- tapuhy
for Drs. MEX and FIS and
Lunch comes end goes and P igars for Dr. Burke.
            tepuhy 3s not et docks.

Finally sailsWat 7 PM with Dr. Go$veie de Barros
Dr. Gu$kies weira (Farehyba) and Dr. Amar@
Machado (Geara) Dr. Abenstha%(Fara) on board.
All retire early as sea is not smooth in the
~~tepuhy which has not improved her technique of
taking the waves since I last rode her seven or
eight years ego.

Jan 25.  Feel qualmy all day but do not give up
the ghost.  Dr. Gouveie gets musical and peetical
in the evening.  The Rio Ipojice south of Recife
has three poeos negros, *um dd se&Yes, um dd


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maleite, um rompe perna que nunce ind$fite."  +.
asezoesm is from English seasons end refers to

seasonal types of malaria.

Jan. 26.  Arrive in Recife 9 AM. de &gem
looks fine from the sea. Otherwise Recife seems
but little changed.  Meet Dr. Costa and my old
friend Ignacio after 7 years. Meet Mr. Freire
again of NCB and Mr. Thomas who is now acting
manager.  Mr. Davis is Am. consul end has just
returned from trip to his district et his own
expense.

Leave at 3 PM in Whippet end arrive at Parehyba
via Pauliste et 7:30 PM. Meet Drs. Kerr and Smith. 3f&

Jan. 27.  Fiscelize 26 houses with Kerr. 1 steg
focus found.  Work seems to be done rapidly but
with very little effort et propaganda.  Call on
Dr. Guedes Pereira who later returns cell.
Suggest that it should not be impossible to'secure
the installation of torneiros here. (&. Clark
is chief of traffic of G.W. of Bras11 in Parehyba)
Leave in Ford for Natal et 1:15 PM. Arrive Natal at
11:35 PM. but have difficulty getting in hotel
because .of lateness of hour. Finally get in
Hotel Natal.  Sleep in hammock again.

Jan. 28.  Move to Hotel Internacionel. Hotel
Natal end Hotel Avenida are both impossible,
expecially the Avenide. Cell et Palace end
DNSP in AM end leave cards. See Dr. Juvenal
bmartine only in the afternoon at 2 PM. It
is clear that the governor is interested in the
problem of Ceara Mirim not only from the stand-
point of malaria but also of economic drainage.

The malarious region of Rio Grende no Norte
extends along the litoral from a point just north
of Ceare Mirim (Touros) to the frontier with
Parehyba.  No careful studies of Anophelines have
been made of this region as far es I could find
out here.  Regions produois in former.times
large qllZlnt~~~~~~-ar~~~~~~~serted because,
oTm;;-~eI;fi;r~ **.-r -r.rP-"'.       . ,__". I
%&-&gey   bf these Ceara arim is a striking
     Cajupiranga is another very malerious

zone.

I explained to Dr. bmartine very carefully
that our previous conference occurred after
the budgets for 1928 had already been voted end
that the present visit is nothing more than a
scouting trip and that nothing may ever come of
this *rip.

This afternoon we visited Pitimbu, alose to
Natal, on a good auto roa with the Governor, his
       8
aide end his secretary p. Christobal. Dantes
who has been in the USA studying cotton and-&e-
speaks American well.  Pitimbu had a had reptiation


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foralerie but according to the foreman is now
free from malaria.  This he attributes to the
opening up of drains in the past two years.
Several people questioned but no history of
recent attacks could be secured.  All children
examined did not have spleens except on boy of l.4
who came lest year from Se0 Jose (very malarioas)
drains examined showed numerous young Anopheline
larvae but no pupae were seen. Many fish in open
water.

Dr. Adencho de Camara, Chief of Police.
Dr. Santiego$Varella, Director

Hygiene EstedodDr. Jose Ignacio, under Dr.
Waldemar in DNS$

Jan. 29.  See note on I & po Jan 31. At about
8:39 AM a special train left Natal on the Federal
line for Ceara Mirim carrying the Gov.,myself,
Dr. W. de Sa'Antunes,Dr. Santiago Varella and
two or three other persons. We arrived at about
10 O'clock end had a sumptuous coffee with cheese,
and cakes, etc.  After a delay we started out to
see the valley of the Ceera Mirim.  This valley
is very flat and very fertile lying between
rows of hills on both sides.  The lower course
is now abandoned but the chimneys of many abandoned
engenhos can be seen in this part. The part now
being worked is very productive but is subject
to floods because of the blocking of the mouth
of the river.  The River Ceere Mirim is not easily
distinguishable now because of the multiplicity of
canals which have been dug. We stopped at a
number of engenhos end I examined about 35 children
but found no enlarged spleens. Much hookworm
is evident.  Many fish were present in the deposits
of water'examined and no larvae were found.
Examinstionsoof water very few. Mosquitoes
seen at Ilha Bella were all culex.  Lunch et 3
PM in house of old Baron      on outskirts of
Gears Mirim belonging now to Verelle family.
Return to Natal arriving et 6:30 PM.
Resume:  Ceara Mirim valley is too big for R.F.
and is not properly a malaria problem.  It appears
to me es largely an economical problem. Malaria
undoubtedly exists in the town of Ceare Mirim
end in certain of the engenhos during the
winter months.

Jan 30.  Examined yf service with Dr. Weldemar
beginning in lower part of city in Rua 15 de
Novembro.  24 houses visited gave 1 steg vocus I
en outside jerra neglected. Surprised to find water
piped to many homes with such low pressure that
faucets are not used end delivery of water is
d&-e& into large earthen jars& in the ground,
ip'below the surface.  Thus thorough cleansing
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we went to the source of this supply we found
a large spring with a deep round bricked deposit
for storage; at the foot of a hill on which is
the home of some German priests. On the hills&de
some meters above the spring is a large tank into
which water is pumped from the spring by electric
motor.  It seems that the houses supplied from
this upper tank have plenty of pressure but the
houses supplied directly by gravity from the
lower level have very little pressure and that
only during certain hours of the deg.

  Lunched et home of Dr. Iamartine who has a
high well ventilated house built on American
plans with slight modifications. Dr. L. has 10
children 5 or 6 of whom were at home.  During
the conversation Dr. L. ssked what I thought regard-
ing the R.F. cooperation in malaria. I repeated
what I had previously said about this being only
a scouting trip but added frankly that I did *not
believe that the R.F. would consider the Ceera
Mirim valley drainage es an important malaria
problem but rather as an economic one; that if
the R.F. came in some time would be devoted to    /*ti
preliminary studies end that control demon tration$/1:&a    I G
              8-r    w
                                                                    b    l/&z
that a demonstration and study in the nort   o +X !a,~,, At N
Brazil would probably be of value for Brazil
north of Aleg8es (et least) end along the littoral. ~~&tru.+w4"
Dr. L. stated that he would be willing to cooperate L-e";
in every way possible if we cared to come in.
L' A description of the conditions found in
the Rua 15 de Novembro was followed by a visit of
Dr. J.L. to a couple of houses end then to the
water supply described above.  Dr. L. agreed that
this situation must be corrected end suggested
that enlarging the tank above end sending all
water up to this tank would solve the problem.
He thanked me for having celled the matter to
his attention.  I took occasion to show him
that Natal is not now a dangerous point from a
pmut that es soon es regular  \ $y&+Ih"+J-ay.

   c by aeroplane with Africa is established

Natal es the first Brazilian port d$? call will
become the danger point par excellance. Dr.
J.L. insists that plans are underway (weigh)
to give Natal a reel water service to take the
place of the part time service now had from
bored wells.

  In the afternoon with Dr. S. Varelle to the
Hospital for Crisncas under construction sincz
1923 promises to be a very nice and useful build=
ing when completed.  The State Service end Assistencia
a?`b together with the usual results.
  Jentei with Dr. Waldemar and Donna Zulu. Two
children Marie Thereza, 8 grs. old end &ria Lucia,
.l yr. 3 mos.


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142$

Jan. 31.  Notice from Dr. Iemartine that he had
arranged a passage for me on the mail plane
leaving here tomorrow morning (Ltocoere)
This means that I will be in Recife Wednesday AM
about 7 and will be abLe to see some of the yf
work there, visit Dr. Gouveia and easily catch
the Gelrie on Thurs. at 10 AM. Other wise
I should have taken the Itequatie tonight end
arrived in Recife lste Wednesday night or maybe
not until Thursday AM.
hPpo - a very malarious place close to
Natal, just across the RR bridge on the line to ~~-pu.&Q 9.
Ceera Mirim.  The fever here is usually a benign
tertian but occasionally es in 1922 the malignant
type becomes epidemic.
in 1922.)         Many fatal cases occurred

Cefrlled at the p&lace this afternoon and took
up the following points with Dr. Iamartine:
  1.  No immediate results expected from this
trip as far as malaria control is concerned,
  2.  Future campaign if undertaken must be on
health end not qeaonomic basis with radius of
action limited to populous centers after preliminary
study.

3. Article of Correio de Manha saying RF
is withdrawing from Brazil not justified
anymore than it was in 1916 when RF entered Brazil.
       Connor to visit Natal soon end to
cal?onDii. Iamartine. (Waterworks)
  5. Dr. Waldemafs relation to our work - YF 1
r) 6. Thanks for courtesies extended.
f The Gov. offered to turn the state over to
me for six months if I return to Natal and I
promised to put his fattening secretary (Dantes)
on a diet for those months.)
Call oflDr. Weldemar end go to his home for
coffee.  Return to Hotel six PM end receive fere-
well cell of Dr. Lamartine, his secretary, adjudante
de ordens, the prefect0 Dr. 0. Grady who speaks
English and the chief of police.
All set to leave hotel et 3 AM tomorrow.

Feb. 1.  First awoke at 11:30 PM last night to
be sure and not miss the 3 AM plane. The flying
field is about 20 km from Natal. We arrived
there et 4 AM after a wild night ride illr:a
Chevrolet truck.  At the field we found a biplane
and a monoplane, the letter being the machine of
our trip.  Because of low hanging clouds and
resultant darkness we did not take off until 5 AM.
Preliminary arrangements included the searching
of the flying field with the headlights of the
Chevrolet truck for possible stray animals which
might be dangerous on the take off. The plane
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Recife where it arrived et 6:45 AK Some bumpy  I
air was encountered the first few minutes in the  1
air but after that the trip was just @in flying. I
Dr.  Connor met me et the flying field. We first i
visited a "jarre " factory where new models are   i
being made and then on into the staff house for
coffee.  Then to see guarde at work in down town  1
                                      ;

section.  Jerraa all practically non-existent
now.  Visited jarras with attached end sealed

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i

fitters.  The follow up cells made et homes where  i
foci had been found were very &ntereating resultihg :
in some broken jerres and destroyed barrel&.         '

Dr. MT% says the only real serious problem now       '
is that of the milltares. The t'feste des Pocasz    r

                                                         ;

was later visited which had been vigorously         '!
controlled by Julius Cesar.  No jarras found in  i
use here now.  A visit to the Presbyterian School
found Miss Douglas end Miss Kilgore still on
duty.

Mr. Burt, of Consulate, lunches et steff.house.
Dr. Connor end I open joint account et Net.
City &+nk. (Mr. Goodman manager). Call on
Dr. Goyeie in PM et Dept of Hygiene. See many
old friends.  We go et Leites with Dr. Souze
Pinto end Dr. G. Cerdoso.

Feb. 27 Sail on Gelrie for Rio. Finish reading
"An American Saga", Carl      Jensen.

Feb. 3. Bahia.  Tennis with Dr. Burke.

Beb.  6. Arrive Rio 6 AM

Feb. 7.  Lunch with Dr. and Mrs. Biel of K.C.
at Hotel Gloria.  Rev. John R. Scotford, Cong.
preacher from Cleveland, with letter from McKinley
Warren.

Feb. 8.

Feb. 9.  Lunch with Miss Dawson end Schwerte,
Mrs. P. end Mr. I&d&a, iedoo,x

Feb. 10.

Feb. 11. Rev. John Scotford, Cong. preacher from
Cleveland Ohio end mother dine at 125 Bolivar.

                   ROUJf
Feb. 12.  Grippe all day.  Bsrrpn girls and Miss
Cobb dine at 125 B&liver.

Beb. 13.  Dr. A. Untz, Dr. De&o Perreiras,
D.A. Andrede end I have session from 5930
PMto 8 PM.  Dr. Lintz tries to show us the
advantage of tileflfl We are of difficult


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convictiont For new contract with R.F. I insibt
on the organization of a unified malaria service
es part of the state department of Hygiene. It
seems that Decio .now has the whip hand end it is
somewhat doubtful if this measure goes across.
However it is the goal toward which we must
work.

Feb. 14.  Prepare proposed contract for State
of Rio end submit to Andrade.

Feb. 15 Dr. end Mrs. Biel to lunch et 125 Boliver.

Feb. 16.

Peb. 17. Feb 18 Wnnor wires "R-4 yellow
fever Sergipe being investigated.#

Feb. 18.  Leave Rio on Central at
Mrs. I%reons end Miss De$nha#t. Arrive et
Campo Bello, hoje Barq# HomePjffde Mel10 at    r?Jd? Q.o-mp." d&l,

12:30 PM.  We are met by Dr.@Pampos Porto of the
Jardim Bote@.co who says that Weltherkis
full but that we will be taken care of et the
Jardim.  After visiting the milk freezing end
butter plant we go to the Jdrdim in en old Ford,
piloted by one Schuber3 passing the military
T.B. sanitarium enroute. At the Jardim we are
met by Mrs. Campos Porto, Florita, Estella Rabico
(Cepetao Ki-Ki), Dr. Machado, chimico of the
agricultural college, and Mario.  A purple tree
flower called "quaresma fl (Lent) is everywhere in
evidence.

Feb. 19.  Stroll to Iego Azul. Mrs. Parsons
reports a hard bed.  Children's Carnival et
night.

Feb. 20.  Visit to Dr. Machadds sitio.           /--- -
                                        ,I /J

Feb. 21.  Leave Jardim (816 Mts.) at.1 PM horseback
and arrive at Maceiras (4960 mts.-)'& 4:3O PM.
My mule)Prenatel Influence, is entirely impervious
to all forms of physical stimuli with the exception
of blows rained upon the heed between the ears.
A delightful cabin with apple end peer trees
forms the uppermost station of the Jerdim. All
the comforts of home except spring beds.

Feb. 22.  Leave Maceiras et 6:3O AM end arrive
et foot of Agulhas Negras at 9 AM. Reach top
of peak (2951 mts) et lo:35 AM and get batik
to base et 11:30 with clothing soaked with
perspiration.
2 PM.      Return to Maceiras arriving about
   Iunch, dinner, bridge and bed.


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Feb. 23.  Leave Maceires at 7 AM and arrive et
Jardim et 10 AM after side trip to Welthers.
See Doneti.  Take 1:40 PM train for Rio. All
reach Rio with new appreciation of spring beds.

Feb. 24. Holiday.  ("Day of the Constitution")
Afternoon at office.  Letter received regarding
transfer of Kerr to Paraguay.

Feb. 25. Set.  ) Heavy reins.
Feb. 26.  Sunday )

Feb. 27.  Annual report seaked by rain.
Mrs. Parsons insists that she has no responsibi-
lity in helping collect funds from the government
exen the' the responsible man is assigned to her
service by Dr. Fraga; that Alfred0 always has
collected these accounts and that our bookkeeping
staff is no more full of perfection than is her
service.

  Consultation w         He has m
ofslspect         Lan our notices
of Sergipe               Asks about fillow- I
ship end sbout possible help for School of Hygiene
in Rio.  Promises to send proposed list of candi-
dates and proposed project before Congress to me
soon for transmissel to N.Y.

Feb. 28.  Pedro Dias was informed by phone that
the Bank of Bras11 in S. Paul0 had refused to
receive the money for the State Treasury from
the National City Blank destined to pay the first
installment of the Medical School.

w  ,4
7       To &g&r&es with Alfred&D to see about old
        accounts of 1918-1919. Good promises received.

Feb. 29.  Annual report.

Mar. 1.  Mrs. Parsons and Mame LeDoux to dinner.

Mar. 2.

3.  Saturday - Still running fever.

4. Sunday.  Afternoon et office. Kvening to
see Merjon in Gentelhomme de Paris.

5. Dr. Fox, Quarantine officer of Port of
N.Y. calls in Rio.

6.

t= 7, Dr. Fox and Mrs  Dr. Werner and Mrs. Parsons
and Schoenfeld to dinn r.
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March 8.  Dr. M.P. arrives and dines at 125
Bolivar.  Mario says that all county health
units except those in which the R.F. is interested
have been taken from his direction and are now
in charge of Dr. Salles Comes, long autagonistic
to the work of the Foundation. Mario should soon
be out of this mess as he has brought up his
papers all in order for a felloWhip and FJR
has written promising approval. FJR believes
we should arrange no new work with Sao Paula as
long as part time basis is used.

March 9. To the Prev@torium for TB boys on
&pueto (Dr. Madeira is chief of service) run
by TB League with help of 120 contos from Federal
Government per yey.  In charge of Spanish order
of Sisters.  To I$ha das Flores to see immi-
gration stationfi PM.  Capacity for 4000 under
pressure. 9 and typhus taken to Ilha
Grande.  Other s ckness handled here. In time
of epidemics all immigration through port of Rio;
now mostly through Santos.  10 cases of Trachoma
waiting deportation.  Dinner with Mario at Brahms.

Mar. 10.  Saturday.          (7 cyl
                      /' z.5

Mar. 11.  Dinner with Dr. and Mrs. Peter Warner.
(Capt'n. Navy) and Dr. and h-8. Charles FoW
home of WarnerIs.  Supper at Hotel Palace with Fox's.

Mar. 12.  Connor and Burke have gone to Aracaju.
Burke writes under date of March 4th "They?  \
were trying to slip the word to Rio,that Sergipe
had yellow fever without letting se# criado know
anything about it, so I just rested my foot on    !
the floor board until I was satisfied they were
not in front of me, which however, resulted in
neglecting other observations.'p/ Connor reports
95s of houses in Recife without jarras of the old
type.  Conference with Dr. Fraga and Dr. IaFayette'
        Fraga is also informed that
         not available this year.

March 13.  Dr. Waldimiro advised that Foundation
help not available in 1928 for Food Chemist.

March l&  Iunch with Schoenfeld at Jockey Club.
Annual Report finally sent on today's boat.

March 15.  Idle day at office.

March.16.  Sail at t, PM from Rio on @@Avelona"
of Blue Star Line. Meet Dr. PedFo .Xisto, rooming
with Rev. Smith in Santos, and S$fr. Guillermo
de Escurra of In Nation B. Aires. The conversational


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I

efforts of the three of us, one Brazilian one
Argentine and one Ameridan-lasted until 2:30 AM
in spite of the arrival of the Avelona Santos
at 6 AH the following morning.  I was particularly
interested in Rscurra's discussion of the Argentine
political situation and did all I could to keep
the discussion on Argentine politics and away from
Braoilian politics and literature.

Irogoyen&Hippolyto) was really the secretary
or assistant of the organiser of the party which
finally broke up the old aristocratic policy of
passing the Presidency around fro one great
family to another. At the time Aa '
he took over the machinery of the party and had
himself elected president. For years he ruled
all Argentina even the provinces without appearing
at public meetings.  He has been described as
the President that nobody saw.

He worked entirely through agents who came
to him for orders and they went out and fulfilled
those orders and reported to him on conditions
in their section of the country.    this respect
he was very much like Borges Mede d@ who ruled
Rio Grande so long.) When he came to the Presi-
dency, he surrounded himself with unknown mini-
sters of little talent.  He believed in direct
rule of the president endninisters were to
him but high class secretaries. Congress was
allowed to meet, his message was sent to it by a
servant and it was not consulted in matters of
government "To the victors belong the spiirdlsa
was the order of the day and all public employees
were changed.  Internally then the government
was bad but externally seems to have been good.
Strongly nationalistic, Irogoyen refused to enter
the war with Germany or permit the cooperation
of the R.F. in health matters in the Republic.
When his term drew to a close he elected Dr.
Alvear, the present President, to succeed him.
Dr. Alvear had the following qualifications:
    He had spent three
&dl&herited.    pa rge fortunes which he

  2.  He had lived a great many years away from
Argentina and hence had no political alliances.
  3.  He had always shown himself tractable.
In office however, he failed to agree with
Irogoyen on the qusstion of federal intervention
in.the provincial elections of the province of
Buenos Aires.  Since this divergence of opinion,
the party has been split i&&the personalistas
for Irogoyen and the antipersonalistas those
opposed to his domination of the Party.
The Minister of Public Instruction under Irogoyen
was a primary school teacher from the interior.
He was burlesqued in a play which ran for three


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years in BA of unknown authorship (at the time.
Later discovered that it, was written by an em-
ployee of the Ministerlo.) The minister is first
shown receig ng the telegram in his tiny rural
school in Jp bJ notifying him of his appointment.
When he arrives in BA he asks the servents of the
ministry how to behave on various occasions.
When asked by Congress for an explanation of his
educational programme he says that he believes
in "Sound minds in sound bodies" and in shoes
for ever 3 scholar.  (Not so bad for hookworm
at that.

March 17.  St. Patrick's Day in AM. See the
gash in the side of Mont Serrat and learn from
the paper that on the 7th of March the prefect0
was notified of the crevasse on the side of the
hill; the pre@$%o notified his engineering
service to report but nothing had been done-when
the catastrophe occurred. Result 107 people
killed by 300,000 cubic meters of earth.
900,000 bu. met. are still expected to fall.

Leave Santos at 8:25 AM arriving in SP at 10:19.
M.P. not at office because of operation on one of
his boys but comes to hotel at 2 PM. We go over
the local situation which remains largely unchanged
and then call on Borges V   a.
      v   Barges reports
that the work on the In&i ute should soon begin
as the final contract is to be signed Monday.
Borges promises me a letter giving the actual
workn>w being done by the Institute.

M.P. reports that some doctor, enemy of Paula
Sousa's, but whose identity MP does not know is
reported to have said that the only salvation
of the S.P. of S.P. would be Geraldo's recall
from Europe.  The work of destruction goes on
apace.  M.P.*s proposed trip to the US has been
given as the reason for the transfer of all non-
Rockefeller posts to Dr. Salles Games. The
Rockefeller servile has not yet been touched;
the state service hmwever has gone back to the
Delegacia de Sande plan with Pascale and others
of our old service acting as delegados.

Afranio Amaral has returned from the US and
gave to the newspapers an interview in which he
states that the Institute of Butantan does not
yet exist - in fact never did exist but that now
it is to come into being under hisrnble auspices.
Jayme Pereira, who has recently become professor
of physiological chemistry, by concurso and is
therefore untouchable rose to the occasion in
the medical society and insisted that this inter-
view must have been erroneously reported by the
papers and that he expected a public denial on the
part of Afranio.  SO- Dr. Rebello, of the Police,
stood with Jayme on this and the firends of Amaral
raid nothinu-                        ~_. .
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Mario believes nothing can be gained by going
to Julio Prestes now and explaining the position
of the R.F. on full time employees for public
health work.  More rope must be given although
it seems that the higher powers are beginning
to realiae what is happening. Two months more
should bring matters to a head.

Accidentally meet Dr. AT Pinto on the street.
He has "good news for me " but what I want is money
and not any more good news.  He promises money
for the end of April as he now has a government
job which is to pay 1:450$ per month. I tell
him he must pay as otherwise I must protest his
notes.  WL pzd &.,
Hotel and early to bed.

March 18. Sunday.  Dr. Pedro Dias calls at
8:30 AM and we visit the local of the new medical
school where we find Dr. Sousa Campos waiting.
The excavations for the foundations are finished,
much lumber for forms, cement, rock and gravel
and iron are already on the ground. A short
branch line of the trolley line has been made
and the power lines are just about ready. I
explain to P&&-o Dias the money available and
the manner of payment and it is agreed that we
will send 600 cnntos per month beginning with
April which will mean 6,000,000$000 paid by the
end of 1928 leaving 409:000$000 to bepeid in
1929.  It would semm that the work will go forward
rapidly from now on.  Dr. Sousa Campos insists
that everything is being weighed and measured
on arrival at the ground; and that they found
a shortage of 600 kilos on iron delivered.

On our return to the Hotel, Dr. P.D. and I
have a long talk over the local situation. He
says that:  he always was antagonistic to P.
Souaa but that he realises that his organization
of the SP was good; that he recommended Moreno
and others as director and not W. Oliveira; that
W.O. had been P.S.(s right hand man and fully
in his confidence but that as soon as P.S. is
out he became his enemy; that he is trying to
destroy all the work of P.S, When I ask why
PZD3 takes pencil and draws picture of a burro
with a rider.  He refuses at this point to name
the rider but later admits that it is Arthur
Neiva and Salles Gomes.  Pedro Diesels only connection
with the SP has been through the section for the
verifica a^o dos obitos.
  f           Since P.S. left this
service  s becmme continually worse.  Few
cadavers are now received and generally these
are four or five days old and putrid. P.D.
understands that the service is to be discontinued.
I ask why? and am told that Paul0 Sousa inaugurated
this service and that the enemies of P$S. are


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now riding. (I suspect that the unknown doctor
mentioned by Mario Pernambuco yesterday is none
other than Pedro Dias.)

  P. Dias insists that he it was who secured the
approval of the budget for the* School of Hygiene
with the promise of 800 cantos from the State;
that B.V. in the absence of Paula Sousa is with-
out great influence.  Julio Prestes asked P.D.
if he were not in favor of the School of Hygiene
as part of medical school; he replied that he
had had that idea for the-betterment of the
school!!! but that the arrangement between the
Gov't and R.F. provided for certain things and
that he had promised Paula Sousa before he left
and had promised me in fromt of the Secretary
of the Interior to make no move toward such
inclusion of the school in the Faculdade; that
in the face of the previous understanding the
government shoulddther approve this budget and
get on with the work or should return the money
already spent.  The result was approval.
  I discuss with P.D. the R.F. attitude on

full time.  He cites the case of Dr. Nicolas
Moreno who had a good practice and abandoned it
entirely to devote himself to food examination
and is now reduced from 3 to 2 cantos per month
and from full to part time.

P.D. a.9 bluntly who will explain to Julio
Prestes our attitude on full time. I tell him
that my relations are through the Director de SP
to whom I explai ed
    &   this attitude some months
before the chan   was made.  I further state
that I believe it will be difficult to secure
R.F. cooperation beyond 1928 in face of present
facts of all part time liemployees. That such
discontinuance of our service is disagreeable
becaursse of our long association of 10 years
here and that we are sorry to see the situation
as it is in a state where we have spent much
over 1000:000$000 in public health work. (I
suspect this interview will go in a few days or
less to J.P.) Dr. P.D. says that he is responsible
for the appointment of Afranio Amaral and that
although A.A. knows this he has not even co@e
to call since his return. Furthermore the inter-
view on the I&W existence of Rutantan has reflected
on P.D.'s choice of a director.  (Yes the world
is still round.) P.D. says that all Amaral ever
knew about snakes etc., he learned from Vital
Brasil.

March 19.  Conference with Dr. Waldemiro de
Oliveira mostly devoted to accounts with

*P.D. insists that there had been active blocking
of the Institute plans by Neiva et Cia. Neiva is
starting a new Biological Institute.


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R.F. and to Nuse's Training. When I mention
possibility of talking health work to Julio
Prestes, W.O. changes the subject immedietely.

To Santos by car and Rio by Andalucia. Arrive
at office at 11 AM March 20.

P-p  Mar* 20.  Reports from Bahia indicate that
2  Arapjo called tissues from Sergipe positive
    for yellow fever.  Tissues have 81~0 been sent
    to Rocha Lima in Rio and to N.Y. Reports from  1
   Connor at Estancia say no new c8ses have appeared.!
   Conference with Dr. Fraga who feels cases may be
    y.f.  I discuss freely with Fr8g8 the details
   of the S.P. situation in Sao Peulo and suggest
    that a visit of his in the near future might be
   of value in preventing the passage of the new
    project by Congress.  Meet Dr. A Carins v
    in Fraga*s office. He recently returned from's
    hospital inspection trip to the USA.         .

    March 21. Rio.

March 22. Rio.  Andrade brings in counter proposal
of State of Rio.  Not satisfactory.

&rch 23. Connor reports Sergipe c8ses probably \   "C.-/l,,   t-, 'L ix-
not yellow fever.

March 24. Very hot. To Petropolis in PM

March 25.  Petropolis. Heavy rain.

March 26.  Return to Rio.  Kerr arrives on                        . ..-
Eeelandia.  Telephone call from Rocha tima says
c8se of Estancia (Maria de Lourdes) *positive I
for N.f.

March 27.  Advise Drs. Fraga and bFayette that
case was diagnosed 1 .f. by Dr. Rode Lime. Wire
Connor and also wri e Dr. Russell. Muench 8nd i;
Kerr leave at 7:30 PM for Belle Horioonte.    I

March 31. Sat. &Hospital prOp8g8nd8 meeting at
bldg. of the Empxegados do Commercio on the
Avenida.  Very hot.  Mrs. Parsons introduces
Miss Dorothy Morse whohss been 5 years in Chile
with the ME Mission as nurse.  Mrs. Parsons
cnnsiders available for work in Arthur Bernardes
Hospital on return from the EUA.

Dr. A. Lint8 from state of Rio suggests con-
ferenoe tomorrow.

April 1.  Meet Dr. Lint2 at Cru8 Ver 4- #ha at
11AM. Dr. Renato Machado shows us his installation
for e8r nose and throat work. Dr. Castro Ar8$jo
is also present.  Discussion of contract forces


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to the conclusion that old contract must be
renewed.

April 2.  Dr. Frsga says Rio is now without
anti- steg service 8nd hence vulnerable to y.f.
if imported from Sergipe only 3 days away.  (Wire
Gonnor of Frega's fear.)

April 3.

April 4.  Visit Estrella, halfway between Rio and
Petropolis with Drs. Linta and Dr. Godoy of
D.C. Inst. where new study '&biology of mosquito
and also of malaria is to be made.  The land and
buildties are to be furnished by a real estate
company and the State of Rio is to furnish some
funds for installations. The work is to be done
under direction of XC. Chagas who goes to
Europerext Saturday.
  Kerr returns from Minas.

April 5.  Thursday $ holiday.

April 6.  Sexta Feira Santa. Dr. Kerr and I
take the 5:30 AM Berca for Nichteroy and the
6:3O train for Capivary, only to find that Drs.
Alcides Lint8 and Decio Perreiras had arrived
at 4:30 AM examined one or two ditche  by flash-
light beiiig much annoyed thatDr. Andr de&
           $
had not received them and had then proceeded to
Rio Bonito on the 6:lO train.
The high water from the river is b8cking up
on the lowlands about Capivary and we find the
tiles doing heavy duty in 8 reverse direction.
  zzthatbikmen do not kbow-
          paris gr=n should be spplied.
good lunch is enjoyed in spite of Holy Friday.
T&r3 -helps the return trip
4        w
                                                          A-
to 8n  expected pleasantness.  Kerr and I arrive 2%   -f <C&a*

home at 7:30 P.M.
Sab8do de Aleluia. April 7. Office in AM
call on Dr. Fraga in PM and discuss
           +
                          .f. in
north.  Dinner and bridge at Piuench .  Moonlight. I
Sunday. Easter.  Mass at Cathedral.

Monday 9.  To Quimados with Andrade and Kerr.
Impression of service only feir. Some tiles
should be deeper 8nd many more must be used.

Tuesday 10.  To Santa Cru8 with AndradeJSou8a
Pintoland Kerr.  Dr. Jsnot8kopf is engineer in
charge of the wireless station.  Towers 250
meters high.  Ditches are in good shape except


that floods have done some damage and one line
of tile is blocked.  Trip to Santa Cruz in 2
hours.  Andrade breaks front spring. First
ride in new model Ford. Shock absorbers are
very good.

Wednesday 11.  Bishop Every and,Morres Jones to
lunch. No @race.  Trip to Mang&hos.

Thursday 12.  Klolx confirms diagnosis Of y.f.
in Sergipe case. Fraga advised.     I

On Wednesday Dr. Thomaz 8nd Kerr went with me
to Oswald0 Cruz Institute. Dr. Codoy the
present director and Dr. Chaves insisted that
funds will be avsilable for some payments within
a month.  We call on Dr. Aragao and suggest work
on leptospira rind y.f. in north. Dr. Rocha  A
Lima is in S P8ulo.

Friday.  Dr. Magalhaes from Bahia is in town.

Saturday.  To- Petropolis.  Capt. and &s. Watson
and Miss Priscillia, Dr. 8nd es. Soper and es.
Parsons are weekend guests of Mr. E-V. Morgan
at the Summer Embassy.  This house is the home
of the Prince heir apparent to the Braeilian
throne.  He is the grandson of the last Emperor
Dom Pedro II.  One of his brothers died of
overwork for the Red Cross during the European
War and snother was killed flying for the English.
His father was the Conde d Eu. The house is
large with plenty of room #or all.

Capt. and Mrs. Babcock and Commander and Mrs.
Wilson were dinner guests.

Sunday 15.  Tea at the home of &dame Mesqluta and
the Baroneaa de Born Fim. Their home 8nd its
furnishings 8re very interesting.

.The Baroness and Madame Mesqtita and Mr. Bowns
of U.S. Steel Co. are dinner guests.

f `1
/ @

Monday 16.  Return to Rio. Dr. Magalh$es from     ,/q+ *,"p \\ 2)
Bahia lunches with us at 125 Bolivar. He says
that one suspect case of y.f. in Bahia proved    ,/;p ruIy"r
to be plague.  Also that there was an epidemic    ,' &J+ :@-/-'
of vomit0 preto at Patrocinio C&l-& before the I ,/." ,/
                               @+f *'

appearance of cases in Estancia.
with Dr. Arag;ao and Dr.

Tuesday. 0   R.L. over g????$d y.f. 1 chb+
     D. Tomas and I call on the secretaries
to the Ministers of the Interior and of I&end8 h-&@q
and secure freedem from Customs on materials.
Postage and telegrams 8re to be paid in ca8h and the
bill presented to the Min. of the Interior at
the end of the month.


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There 8re but 3 $&acus Rhesus in Rio. Final
publication of work of Stokes, Bauer and Hudson     ~
arrived today.  A very interesting piece of
work.  Can it be confirmed for Braail?

Tuesday and Wednesday (17th and 18th) largely
spent visiting the Minister of Interior and the
Minister of Faoenda.  The minister of the Interior
promises to pay our telegrams and postage from
his budget.  The arrangement being that we will
pay cash 8nd present the bill at the end of the
month.  At present we 8re paying only telegrams
and the yellow fever service is paying neither
telegrams nor postage.

April 21. National Holiday."Tir&dentes" i.e.
"Toothpuller."  However, better be a toothpuller
and be known to posterity 8s "0 homem do Ca#sao"
from statue in front of the Congress with a
shroud which completely covers the body than a
Pasteur with but 8 bust statue on the Avenida
Pasteur and that with a shirt open at the neck
with the bosom exposed to the breeaesthat blow.

Letter from Db Russell announces that Dr.
J&in
       no re urn to Bra8i .            comes
&&ii&%&t of marri8m m  I
w, daughter of m
Afternoon ride to Tiju)?8 and P8ul and'Virgini8.
Very hot dusty day.

April 22. To Post 6 in A +%r. 8nd Mrs. Jansen
de Mello.  In PM to Jockey Club with Mr. Nave
and Miss Mc Ifi nnon.  The Jockey Club was apparently
built to ecfipse Palermo in Buenos Aires and I
believe does so.  Sunday supper at German Restaurant
in J.&e with the MuencbPs.

  Lfr7E
April 23. Dr. Connor arrives on rania.  Epide-
miologically refuses to consider Sergipe cases

possible commission.

8nd suggest DNSP commission.  Dr. Fraga is at
Caxambu hence get no definite action. Dinner
with Dr. Connor at Copacsbana.  (Muench's and
Kerr present also.)

Dr. Kerr returns from Oliveira.

April 24.  Swim at Post 6 w3h Connor at 7 AM.
Visit Mr. Dawson and later in the day Dr. I8
Fayette de Freitas.  Dr. laFayette agrees to
wait and w&&K program and likes idea of DNSP w
commission.  Connor sails at 5 PM on Jelria,


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April 25.  Dr. M. Pernambuco arrives from Sao
Paula.  Says all of'assistants except Dr. Waldemar
de Rocha have been taken from him 8s well as
400s budget for extras in office. He says that
Ros8lvo Salles is to ask 6 mos. leave and that
W.O. is going to try to put in local physician.
I authoriae him to stand pat and hold his own
candidate.  M.P. reports that there is talk of
change of Sec. of Int. in which c8se Paul.8 SOU8
and R.F. should be in better position in SaO
Paulo.  There is no need now for my proposed trip
to Sao Peul.0.  "Let sleeping dogs lie."
Dr. Pedro Diss and Dr. Borges are notified of

transfer of funds, vi8 second 600 cantos thru
me for Medical School and lstl20 cantos through
me for the Institute.

Nave and Kerr, Miss McKinnon and Miss Pullen
dine at 125 Bblivar.

April 26. Swim with Mar1o.f Dinner with Mario,c
Kerr and Muench's at Central. Received payment
of 15 cantos from Oswald0 Crua.  Visit from
Dr. Gustav Hass&&a-s who is interested in fellow-
ships&%%81 zoology.

Dr. Andrade and Dr. Lint8 call and discuss Rio
contract.  Dr. Lint8 holds that service cannot
bendent mt same time am
finally suggests letting me taa to the president
of the state on Monday.  I accept this proposal.
At the same time I explain to him how useless it
is to maintain two services of malaria in the
state of Rio.  We finally go to the bank but are
unable to secure money without the proper autho-
riaation of the signature of Dr. Lints.::,

Wire from Dr. Russell insists that case in
argipe is y.f. and that preceding cases must
have occurred. ' Letter sent to Connor by air mail.

April 27. Ker_r sails on Cap Arcona for BA and
Paraguay.  No news from Fraga.

Ssturday.  28. All day at office - cleaning house.

Sunday 29.  Swim Post 6.  Find Drs. R. Lima
H. Aregao and Dr. Jacob neurologist in the sea.
Tea at Copacabana in honor of Dr. Jacob. Meet
Dr. Austrelgesio.

/lfXt~ Monday 30.  Wire from Connor says all children I f-A
    and young adults in Estancia tobe autopsied by
    Biao regardless of cese of death.