Evelyn Fox Memorial Fund

The Twenty-Eighth Long Fox Memorial Lecture: Forest Folk: Modern Medicine in the Congo

The subject upon which I propose to speak seems particularly appropriate, for Dr. Long Fox was always especially interested in the foreign mission field. Indeed, it is to remind us of this lifelong interest that the Long Fox Memorial Fund has the dual purpose of providing for this lecture and of helping students who are preparing for medical missionary work. As an old student of this University...

The significance of the Milbank Memorial Fund for policy: an assessment at its centennial.

In 1935, when medical societies across the United States were complaining that the Milbank Memorial Fund endorsed health insurance mandated and subsidized by government, Albert G. Milbank, president of its board, accorded priority to protecting the Fund’s “reputation and its personality” (Kingsbury 1935a). This article, on the occasion of the Fund’s centennial, describes how its personality, ex...

Appraisal of vital statistics in Latin America.

The Child Guidance Council and the Commonwealth Fund

who have a special interest in the whole problem. Among the Associations represented are the Central Association for Mental Welfare, the Charity Organisation Society, the Institute of Hospital Almoners, the Magistrates' Association, and the National Council for Mental Hygiene. The immediate work of the Council will be educational. Interest in, and understanding of, the Child Guidance Clinic Mov...

Changing concepts of morbidity and mortality in the elderly population.