Directory of Fellowship Awards, 1917-1950, The Rockefeller Foundation
Directory of Fellowship Awards, 1917-1950, The Rockefeller Foundation
Reginald M. Atwater
1952-02-01 00:00:00
one would expect from so eminent an ships has always been one of the primaryinterests of the Rockefeller Foundation. investigator as the editor. It began during the first World War and ERNESTINE BECKER MCCOLLUM grew gradually until by 1950 there were A Manual for the Control of Com- 6,342 persons who had received fellowmunicable Diseases in California- ships representing 75 countries and an Compiled by the California State De- investment of about $19,000,000. An partment of Public Health (2nd ed.). additional amount of half this sum was San Francisco: California State Depart- given to other organizations for their ment of Health, 1951. 228 pp. Single own fellowship programs. This report is an excellent illustration copies free. This volume is based largely on the of the basic principle of this fellowship 7th edition of Control of Communicable program, which is a conviction that indiDiseases in Man, published in January, viduals can and should be developed for 1950, by the American Public Health future leadership and creative achieveAssociation. Revision from the original ment in important fields of endeavor. or substitutions have been made chiefly There have been no bars to the crossing to conform with existing regulations and of racial or national boundaries. Beside statutes in California. Additional in- the technical information acquired there formation on the laboratory diagnosis has been a significant lifting of the level of the communicable diseases is given, of international cooperation and underwith listing of the diagnostic tests avail- standing. Of the total awards, 40 per able in local laboratories or in the State cent have been under the International Health Department's Laboratory Divi- Health Division of the Foundation, with sion. Immunization procedures include approximately an equal number divided the specific procedures recommended by under the medical sciences and natural the State Health Department and the sciences divisions, with the social California Conference of Local Health sciences and humanities making up the Officers. A section on public health remainder. nursing responsibilities has also been The report modestly points out that added for each disease which details the fellowships are uncontrolled experiments, specific activities the public health nurse in the sense that the kind of record that should carry out in the control of the might have been established without the disease. An appendix quotes the pro- fellowship remains unknown. It is safevisions of the California Health and to assume that many of these young perSafety Code for Quarantine of Com- sons would have had distinguishect municable Diseases. careers even without the help of the felThis is a good example of the uses to lowships, and the Foundation does not which the Association's manual may be claim for itself more than what fellowput. California has developed a pattern ship holders themselves have affirmed, that may be useful in other states. namely, that the fellowship experience, MARTHA LUGINBUHL wisely planned and coming at a crucial developmental juncture, can contribute Directory of Fellowship Awards, significantly to future achievement. This 1917-1950, The Rockefeller Founda- is a magnificent report representing an tion. New York: Rockefeller Founda- unprecedented venture consistently detion, 1951. 286 pp. veloped for a third of a century. The The President of the Rockefeller Foundation is to be congratulated on Foundation, Mr. Chester I. Barnard, the venture itself and on an outstanding points out that the granting of fellow- report. REGINALD M. ATWATER
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Directory of Fellowship Awards, 1917-1950, The Rockefeller Foundation
one would expect from so eminent an ships has always been one of the primaryinterests of the Rockefeller Foundation. investigator as the editor. It began during the first World War and ERNESTINE BECKER MCCOLLUM grew gradually until by 1950 there were A Manual for the Control of Com- 6,342 persons who had received fellowmunicable Diseases in California- ships representing 75 countries and an Compiled by the California State De- investment of about $19,000,000. An partment of Public Health (2nd ed.). additional amount of half this sum was San Francisco: California State Depart- given to other organizations for their ment of Health, 1951. 228 pp. Single own fellowship programs. This report is an excellent illustration copies free. This volume is based largely on the of the basic principle of this fellowship 7th edition of Control of Communicable program, which is a conviction that indiDiseases in Man, published in January, viduals can and should be developed for 1950, by the American Public Health future leadership and creative achieveAssociation. Revision from the original ment in important fields of endeavor. or substitutions have been made chiefly There have been no bars to the crossing to conform with existing regulations and of racial or national boundaries. Beside statutes in California. Additional in- the technical information acquired there formation on the laboratory diagnosis has been a significant lifting of the level of the communicable diseases is given, of international cooperation and underwith listing of the diagnostic tests avail- standing. Of the total awards, 40 per able in local laboratories or in the State cent have been under the International Health Department's Laboratory Divi- Health Division of the Foundation, with sion. Immunization procedures include approximately an equal number divided the specific procedures recommended by under the medical sciences and natural the State Health Department and the sciences divisions, with the social California Conference of Local Health sciences and humanities making up the Officers. A section on public health remainder. nursing responsibilities has also been The report modestly points out that added for each disease which details the fellowships are uncontrolled experiments, specific activities the public health nurse in the sense that the kind of record that should carry out in the control of the might have been established without the disease. An appendix quotes the pro- fellowship remains unknown. It is safevisions of the California Health and to assume that many of these young perSafety Code for Quarantine of Com- sons would have had distinguishect municable Diseases. careers even without the help of the felThis is a good example of the uses to lowships, and the Foundation does not which the Association's manual may be claim for itself more than what fellowput. California has developed a pattern ship holders themselves have affirmed, that may be useful in other states. namely, that the fellowship experience, MARTHA LUGINBUHL wisely planned and coming at a crucial developmental juncture, can contribute Directory of Fellowship Awards, significantly to future achievement. This 1917-1950, The Rockefeller Founda- is a magnificent report representing an tion. New York: Rockefeller Founda- unprecedented venture consistently detion, 1951. 286 pp. veloped for a third of a century. The The President of the Rockefeller Foundation is to be congratulated on Foundation, Mr. Chester I. Barnard, the venture itself and on an outstanding points out that the granting of fellow- report. REGINALD M. ATWATER
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