Medical Department, United States Army
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE IN WORLD WAR II
Volume III
PERSONAL HEALTH
MEASURES
AND IMMUNIZATION
Editor in Chief
Colonel John Boyd Coates, Jr., MC
Editor for Preventive Medicine
Ebbe Curtis Hoff, Ph.D., M.D.
Assistant Editor
Phebe M. Hoff, M.A.
OFFICE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
WASHINGTON, D.C., 1955
Contents
Chapter
I. MANPOWER SELECTION AND THE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE PROGRAM
II. PERSONAL HYGIENE
III. CLOTHING
IV. NUTRITION
V. MALNUTRITION AND DEFICIENCY DISEASES
VI. PREVENTIVE PSYCHIATRY
VII. ACCIDENTAL TRAUMA
VIII. THE ARMY IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM
Appendixes
A. ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR YELLOW FEVER VACCINATION
B. ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR CHOLERA VACCINATION
C. ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR TYPHUS VACCINATION
D. ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR IMMUNIZATION OF OVERSEAS AREAS BY DISEASES
Prepared under the direction of
Major General George E. Armstrong
The Surgeon General, United States Army
Historical Unit
Colonel John Boyd Coates, Jr., MC, Director
Major I. H. Ahlfeld, MSC, Executive Officer
Captain J. K. Arima, MSC, Special Projects Officer
Donald O. Wagner, Ph. D., Chief, Historians Branch
Willa B. Dial, Chief, Editorial Branch
Josephine P. Kyle, Chief, Archives and Research Branch
Hazel G. Hine, Chief, Administrative Branch
Gertrude G. Johnson, Publications Editor
Advisory Editorial Board
on the
History of Preventive Medicine
Brig. Gen. James Stevens Simmons, USA (Deceased), Chairman,1948-54
Brig. Gen. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, USA (Ret.), Chairman
John E. Gordon, M.D.
Paul F. Russell, M.D.
William A. Hardenbergh
Thomas B. Turner, M.D.
Anthony J. Lanza, M.D.
Douglass W. Walker, M.D.
Elliott S. A. Robinson, M.D.
Col. Tom F. Whayne, MC
Ebbe Curtis Hoff, Ph.D., M.D., Editorial Director (Ex Officio)
Colonel John Boyd Coates, Jr., MC (Ex Officio)
