Several months after returning from Australia, Sawyer was dispatched to the southern U.S. to check on the status of hookworm and malaria control efforts in Georgia and Alabama. Drs. Charles N. Leach and John Howard Lidgett Cumpston assisted in this effort. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "Sept. about the 5th, 1924. Dr. Leach standing. Crossing a ferry not far from Leesburg, Ga."
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