Dress Coat, USPHS Lieutenant Colonel
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content: U.S. Public Health Service dress coat worn by Joseph Hill White (1859-1953), a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore who became an assistant surgeon with the Public Health Service. Dr. White used measures to eradicate mosquitoes to counter a yellow fever outbreak in Virginia in 1899. In 1905, White was posted to New Orleans to combat a yellow fever epidemic there - the last to occur in the United States. This uniform is thought to date to that period. White was later assigned to the Rockefeller Foundation's international campaign against yellow fever.
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content: Reference: Flanders, E. "Joseph Hill White." New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified May 20, 2013. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicine/joseph-hill-white-1859-1953/
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: associated subject
content: Public Health
label: associated subject
content: Communicable Diseases
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Joseph H. White III and Wilma Joan White
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0767.02
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content: 1985.0767.02
label: accession number
content: 1985.0767
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Jacket, Officer'S