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6 “Death, Here, of Noted Surgeon.” “Genealogical Material Re the Wertenbaker and Related Families,” PCPW. Historical Data Systems, comp., American Civil War Soldiers (Provo, UT: Generations Network, 1999).
7 U.S. Census Bureau, Ninth Census of the United States (1870): Schedule 1—Population: Fredericksville Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia. U.S. Census Bureau, Tenth Census of the United States (1880): Schedule 1—Population: Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, Enumeration District 14. “Family Record of Charles Poindexter Wertenbaker,” PCPW. See Gerald N. Grob, The Deadly Truth, 116–19, 142, 192–94.
8 “Death, Here, of Noted Surgeon.”
9 Williams, United States Public Health Service, 508–9. C. P. Wertenbaker, “University of Virginia Alumni in the U.S. Public Health Service and Marine-Hospital Service,” University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin, [no date], 197, CPWL, vol. 2. Among those alums Wertenbaker mentioned by name was George M. Magruder, who headed the smallpox control effort at Birmingham.
10 See generally Williams, United States Public Health Service.
11 Margaret Humphreys, Yellow Fever and the South (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992).
12 USSGPHMHS 1902, 30. Wertenbaker, “University of Virginia Alumni,” 196–97. Williams, United States Public Health Service, 492.
13 Williams, United States Public Health Service, 500.
14 “John William Branham,” eulogy pamphlet dated Aug. 23, 1893; CPWL, vol. 1. See also “John Frederick Groenvelt,” eulogy pamphlet dated Jul. 7, 1891, in ibid., vol. 1. “Dead in the Line of Duty,” WP, Aug. 21, 1893, 1. See also “Death of Acting Asst. Surg. Stuart Eldridge”: “He was a man of fine personal appearance, a cultured physician, and genial gentleman, and the U.S. Marine-Hospital Service has lost an able officer from an important post”; PHR, 16 (Nov. 22, 1901 ), 2709.
15 C. P. Wertenbaker to J. D. Church, New York Life Insurance Co., Aug. 3, 1898, in CPWL, vol. 6.
16 Slaughterhouse Cases, 16 Wall. 36 (1873). Tobey, Public Health Law. See Akhil Reed Amar, The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998); William J. Novak, The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 191–248.
17 Florence Kelley, Notes of Sixty Years: The Autobiography of Florence Kelley, ed. Kathryn Kish Sklar (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1986), 88. See Chicago Department of Health, General and Chronological Summary of Vital Statistics (Chicago, 1919), 1446; “Dr. Burson’s Resignation Accepted,” CT, Mar. 1, 1894, 8; R. M. Woodward, “The Cholera Quarantine Conducted by the U.S. Marine-Hospital Service in 1893,” paper read before the Cleveland Medical Society, Nov. 23, 1894, reprint from Western Reserve Medical Journal, January 1895. See also Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and the Nation’s Work: The Rise of Women’s Political Culture, 1830–1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 265–68.
18 C. P. Wertenbaker, “Arrival of Steamship Earnwell at Delaware Breakwater Quarantine with Three Cases of Smallpox,” PHR, 9 (Sept. 4, 1896), 826. See Sir Graham S. Wilson, The Hazards of Immunization (London: Athlone Press, 1967).
19 U.S. Census Bureau, Negroes in the United States (Washington, 1904), 276. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers’ Project, North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State, 249. See also, Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 105–14; Hugh Talmage Lefler and Albert Ray Newsome, North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, 520–22.
20 “The Marine Hospital,” Wilmington Messenger, Jan. 30, 1898, 9. Photos of the Wilmington home and one photo of Alice and Alicia Wertenbaker out for a ride in the station wagon