RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

48 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
concentrated on intensifying family studies and
on statistical work with material already collected.
Other Diseases
Foundation aid to a diphtheria research program
in Eisenstadt began in 1933. Successful
initial work against diphtheria by immunization
with formol-toxoid, authorized in Austria in
1935, led to an active campaign enlisting the cooperation
of physicians, public health workers,
county officials, and health supervisors. The research
program was practically completed by the
end of 1935. In the coming years it is intended
to extend this immunization to all parts of the
country.
During 1935 funds were designated for diphtheria
research in Peiping, China. A member of
the staff of the International Health Division of
The Rockefeller Foundation acted in an advisory
capacity in connection with this research program.
In 1932 the Foundation began to conduct cooperative
studies in Jamaica to devise effective
methods for the control of yaws. In a district
with a high incidence of yaws intensive studies
were made of the onset, sj^mptoms, course, and
spread of the infection, using different drugs under
careful control in the treatment of the disease.
The knowledge thus gained led to the
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