Dr. Sawyer was in Georgia and Alabama inspecting malaria and hookworm control programs from late August to early October 1924, while his family finished a vacation in northern Michigan and prepared to move back to New York City. In this letter Sawyer described southern small-town life and diet, local wildlife (e.g., cockroaches), and making the rounds with local Rockefeller Foundation representative Dr. W. G. Smillie. The "Uncle Bim" that Sawyer mentions was a popular comic strip character during the 1920s.
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