RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION
6l
ing table shows the fields of special interest into
which the group was divided:
Classification "Number Per Cent
Public health administration Ill 59.1
Public health nursing 32 17.0
Sanitary engineering 12 6.4
Public health laboratory 7 3.7
Vital statistics 4 2.1
Industrial hygiene 1 0.5
Special 19 10.1
Incomplete 2 1.1
188 100.0
The 188 fellows came from a wide geographical
area embracing twenty-eight different countries.
In the United States awards were given
to persons from twenty-one states, every section
of the country being represented. Of the 188 fellows,
165 studied in twelve universities
and
schools in the United States, ten studied abroad
during the entire period of their fellowships, and
thirteen were assigned to field studies or nonacademic
institutions.
In addition to providing the fellowships described
above, the International Health Division
arranged and
supervised programs for
thirty-five nurses} of whom seventeen were
studying nursing procedures on fellowships, and
eighteen had
received travel grants enabling
them to visit nursing projects in this country or
Europe.
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