Subseries: 5E. Medical Geography, 1909-1962
Scope and Content Note: Files relating to the Medical Geography Department, which produced maps of diseases within regions, showing their relationship with geographical factors. This department started out with a fluorine study conducted by Anastasia Van Burkalow. Jacques May was hired in 1948 to head the department and worked on the Atlas of Disease and later The Ecology of Human Disease, which were under government contracts. This subseries contains correspondence, proposals, and reports on these projects.

Related Material in the UWM Libraries

• Jacques M. May Papers. AGSL Manuscript Collection 3.

Atlas of Disease

correspondence, 1948-1954

correspondence, 1956-1957

drug addiction, 1952-1957

ONR Contract: Nonr-641 (02), 1952-1962

proposal, 1943-1944, undated

report on proposal, 1944

requests, 1946-1948

reviews and comments, 1951-1954

steering committee minutes, 1944-1946

Clippings, 1937-1944, undated

Conference on Climate and Economic Development in the Tropics, 1954

Ecology of Human Disease

contract: DA19-129-QM-1396, 1959

correspondence, 1957-1958

correspondence, 1959-1962, undated

malnutrition, 1952-1958, undated

publishing contracts, 1960

Fluorine Study

collection of data, 1944-1947

notes, 1945, undated

questions and comments, 1944-1948

reports, 1945

requests, 1946-1948

tabulations by state, undated

List of Names and Publications, undated

Maps, 1944, undated

Photograph, William Briesemeister, 1954

References, undated

Related Articles and Publications, 1909-1959

Survey of Puerto Rico, 1951