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Listen: The Latin ProgramWorkers digging a mosquito control ditch in Taylor County, Florida.
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Series 904, Midwife program files, 1924-1975 ; Box 4, FF25
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The Board initiated a midwife licensing program in 1931 to reduce infant mortality and to promote maternal and child health.
Accompanying note: "This enormous hand dug ditch in Taylor County drains a large pond where Anopheles Quadrimaculatus, the malaria mosquito, were found breeding. A small unscreened shack, in which several people lived, is adjacent to this pond and here the mosquitoes find their food supply - human blood."
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