UMi:/. I I 'i 10 I: "'/: " " I I I: U/: i; V Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report 1925 The Rockefeller Foundation 61 Broadway, New York 'AM I M;)','J ll>IA(M) HO I i AJilu -t V Printed in U. S. A. CONTENTS PAGE PRESIDENT'S REVIEW 1 REPORT or THE SECRETARY 73 REPORT OF THE GENERAL DIRECTOR OP THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH BOARD 87 REPORT OF THE GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE CHINA MEDICAL BOARD 311 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF MEDICAL EDUCATION 391 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF STUDIES 411 REPORT OF THE TREASURER 427 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Map of world-wide activities of the Rockefeller Foundation 4-5 State Institute of Hygiene and School of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland 27 A member of the staff of the Charite Nurse Training School, Lyon 28 School of Public Health and Bedside Nursing, University of Cracow 28 Fellowships for forty-four countries S3 Robert Homer Kirk 79 School of Hygiene and Public Health, University of Toronto 109 Natives of the New Hebrides see the hookworm eggs for themselves. HO One of the latrines erected by Ceylon villagers 110 Children of the Southern United States grouped for hookworm treatment 125 Day's attendance at dispensary for the treatment of hookworm disease, Colombia 125 Latrine constructed by a cotton-grower of Paraguay 126 Another type of latrine being installed in Paraguay 126 Geographic distribution of hookworm control activities in Colombia, 1925 138 Rate at which hookworms are reacquired in Ceylon 147 Average number of hookworms per infected person for various localities, Java 152 Rate at which the average number of hookworms per infected per- son rises with age of host, Java 155 Mill-pond of the Southern United States 167 Concrete tank for irrigation purposes in Italy 167 Only known source of malaria at a bathing resort in Sardinia 168 Mouth of Anopheles-breeding river shown in previous picture.... 168 Average estimated spleen weights of persons who received the standard quinine treatment for malaria 171 ^ Relationship of malaria prevalence to topography in Georgia 173 Cases of malaria and density of dnophtles guadrimacnlatus (female) 176 Anopheles density and cases of malaria in the Gantt area, Alabama 177 Malaria in the Gantt area in Alabama in 1924 and 1925 179 Pond in Corsica where Anopheles larvae were found 183 Breeding-place of Anopheles mosquitoes in a sluggish Corsican brook 183 Lateral views of the two species of Anopheles found in Haiti 184 Open ditch draining a field of sugar-cane in Porto Rico 184 Killing Anopheles mosquito larvae by treating the edge of a stream in the Philippine Islands 191 Public health picnic of a school community in Mississippi 191 Headquarters of the West Africa Yellow Fever Commission, Yaba, near Lagos, Nigeria 192 VH1 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION PAGE Tin tubes fitted with wire tops such as are used in the yellow fever campaign in Brazil 197 Model tank showing how the tin tube maintains a residue of water 197 Type of water container in Brazil 198 Earthenware jars kept at one habitation for the collection of rain water 198 Four stages in the retreat of yellow fever from the Western Hemi- sphere 200 Stations at which control operations have been carried on in the yellow fever campaign in Brazil 201 Percentage of houses in which the larvae of the yellow fever mos- quito, Aides aegyptit were found 203 Yellow fever in West Africa in 1925 206 Samuel Taylor Darling 209 Henry Rose Carter 210 County health departments at the close of 1925 21S Staff of a typical county health department in the United States . 216 Baby clinic of a county health department in Kentucky 216 Graduation of the first class from the School of Nursing of the National Department of Health of Brazil 223 Headquarters of the county health unit at Sertaozinho, Brazil.... 223 Harvard Public Health Club 224 Typhoid morbidity in Alabama in 1925 231 The Ubiquiteers 235 School of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins Univer- sity 236 Students' laboratory of bacteriology in the school of Hygiene and Public Health, the Johns Hopkins University 247 Laboratory of statistics in the School of Hygiene and Public Health 247 Library of the School of Hygiene and Public Health 248 Laboratory of Medical Zoology, School of Hygiene.and Public Health 248 Building being erected at Budapest to house the State Institute of Hygiene of Hungary 257 Some of the buildings of the State Public Health Institute of Czechoslovakia in Prague 258 Mothers' Club, Public Health Demonstration Center, Peking 325 Corner of the clinic, Health Center, Peking 326 Visiting nurses of the Health Center, Peking 326 Student nurses on duty in a ward, Peking Union Medical College. 335 Nurse training in the Peking Union Medical College Hospital.... 336 Bailie Hall, University of Nanking 345 ILLUSTRATIONS IX PAGE Auditorium, Tsinghua College 346 Science Building, Tsinghua College 346 Chemical Laboratory, Soochow University 355 Biology Laboratory, St. John's University, Shanghai 355 Science Hall, St. John's University, Shanghai 356 Hospital ward of ten years ago 363 Present-day ward in the same institution 363 Another contrast in wards 364 Old type of hospital building in China 375 New plant of the same hospital 375 Kitchen of a Chinese hospital ten years ago 376 Kitchen of the same institution today 376 New Biology Building, McGill University 401 Residents' quarters and new Obstetric Hospital, University College, London 402 Kitchen, new School of Nursing, Cracow, Poland 419 Participants in a morning dance, Central Australia 420 Totem tree and natives ready for totem dance 420 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION OFFICERS, MEMBERS, AND COMMITTEES 1925 Members JOHN G. AGAR WICKLIFFE ROSE WALLACE BUTTRICK JULIUS ROSENWALD JOHN W. DAVIS MARTIN A. RYERSON SIMON FLEXNER FREDERICK STRAUSS RAYMOND B. FOSDICK GEORGE E. VINCENT VERNON KELLOGG WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. RAY LYMAN WILBUR Executive Committee GEORGE E. VINCENT, Chairman WALLACE BUTTRICK VERNON KELLOGG RAYMOND B. FOSDICK WICKLIFFE ROSE NORMA S. THOMPSON, Secretary Finance Committee JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., Chairman RAYMOND B. FOSDICK FREDERICK STRAUSS Chairman of the Board of Trustees JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. President GEORGE E. VINCENT Secretary NORMA S. THOMPSON Treasurer LOUIS GUERINEAU MYERS Comptroller ROBERT H, KiRK1 General Director of the International Health Board FREDERICK F. RUSSELL General Director of the China Medical Board ROGER S. GREENE Director of the Division of Medical Educ ation RICHARD M. PEARCE Director of the Division of Studies EDWIN R. EMBREE l Died November 24, 1925. \ THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION OFFICERS, MEMBERS, AND COMMITTEES 1926 Members JOHN G. AGAR* JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. WALLACE BurmcK.2 WICKLIFFE ROSE JOHN W. DAVIS JULIUS ROSENWALD SIMON FLEXNER MARTIN A. RYERSON RAYMOND B. FOSDICK FREDERICK STRAUSS CHARLES E. HUGHES GEORGE E. VINCENT VERNON KELLOGG WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE RAY LYMAN WILBUR Executive Committee GEORGE E. VINCENT, Chairman JOHN G. AGAR* RAYMOND B. FOSDICK WALLACE BUT-TRICK* VERNON KELLOGG WICKLIFFE ROSE NORMA S. THOMPSON, Secretary Finance Committee JOHN D, ROCKEFELLER, JR., Chairman RAYMOND B. FOSDICK FREDERICK STRAUSS Chairman of the Board of Trtistees JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. President GEORGE E. VINCENT Secretary NORMA S. THOMPSON Treasurer LOUIS GUERINEAU MYERS 0 Acting Comptroller GEORGE J. BEAL General Director of the International Health Board FREDERICK F. RUSSELL General Director of the China Medical Board ROGER S. GREENE Director of ttie Division of Medical Education RICHARD M. PEARCE Dirtctor of the Division of Studies EDWIN R. EMBREE i Succeeded Dr. Buttrick. 'Died May 27,1926. \ \ THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION President's Review \ To the Members of the Rockefeller Foundation: Gentlemen: I have the honor to transmit herewith a general review of the work of the Rockefeller Foundation for the period January 1, 1925, to December 31, 1925, together with the detailed reports of the Secretary and the Treasurer of the Foun- dation, the General Director of the International Health Board, the General Director of the China Medical Board, the Director of the Division of Medical Education, and the Director of the Division of Studies. Respectfully yours, GEORGE E. VINCENT President • Hookworm Control or Stuvey O Malaria Work © Yellow Fever Control ® County Health Work ® PubGc Health Education Q Other Public Health Work * Tuberculosis Prevention + Fellowships Granted Fig. 1.—Map of World-wide Activities i ASIA ^V^fX Y' feC = V *.y ; ^ Medical School Supported in Full • Medical Schools Aided A Premedical Schools Aided X Hospitals Aided Q Visiting Commissions Entertained A Nursing Education Aided | Aid to Biological Sciences Shaded area indicates countries in which emergency aid to medical schools w<is furnished the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913. PRESIDENT'S REVIEW The Year in Brief * During 1925 the Rockefeller Foundation in spending 39,113,730 through its departmental agencies, the International Health Board, the China Medical Board, the Division of Medical Education, and the Division of Studies, (1) aided the governments of eighteen countries to combat hookworm disease; (2) gave funds to the budgets of organized rural health services in 220 counties in twenty-six American states and in eighteen districts in Brazil, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and France; (3) took precautionary measures against yellow fever in Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Hon- duras; (4) continued to work with Brazil in freeing its northern coast from this disease; (5) sent a yellow fever commission to the West Coast of Africa; (6) helped to show