Scope and Content Note
The papers of Fred Rodgers McCrumb (1925-1976) span the years 1898-1976, with the bulk of the collection paralleling his career as professor and administrator at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, 1958-1970. His earlier service with the United States Army Medical Corps and later at the Fogarty International Center in Bethesda, Maryland, are only lightly documented in the collection. The papers are organized into three series: Organizations File , Subject File , and Miscellany .
The largest portion of the Organizations File relates to McCrumb's administration of a tropical medicine research center in Lahore, Pakistan, affiliated with the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the International Centers for Medical Research and Training of the National Institutes of Health. Much of the file is related to malaria eradication programs. Material related to smallpox eradication in Pakistan is in the Subject File. Included in the Organizations File is correspondence with Herbert C. Barnett, K. O. Courtney, Eugene J. Gangarosa, Christian R. Klimt, and Theodore E. Woodward.
Other papers in the Organizations File document McCrumb's administration of the University of Maryland medical school's participation in field tests of live attenuated rubella vaccines. The Parke, Davis & Company file includes correspondence with Earl S. Beck, Robert G. Brackett, George C. Cole, and Joseph E. Jackson. The Philips Roxane Company file includes correspondence with Samuel J. Musser and Eben Slater.
The Subject File features data on microorganisms and related diseases and is comprised mainly of printed articles and studies. Overviews of infectious diseases and their causative agents include the publication in 1960 by the American Public Health Association of Control of Communicable Diseases in Manand Burton Wilner's "A Classification of the Major Groups of Human and Lower Animal Viruses." McCrumb's "Studies of Arthropod-Borne Viruses in Human Infections in Malaya, including Mosquito Isolates," a product of his military service in 1953, is also part of the microorganisms file.
McCrumb's speeches and writings and obituaries and tributes occasioned by his death are included in the Miscellany series.