Florida Public Health Oral History Project

Interviewee

Elisabeth Beck

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Interviewer

E. Charlton Prather

Publication Date

10-8-2013

Date

1999-07-09

Abstract

Interview with Mrs. Elisabeth C. Beck, a retired entomologist with the state of Florida. Mrs. Beck began her career identifying mosquitoes during the start of World War II and later joined the state Board of Health in 1944 working for the Bureau of Mosquito Control. Her primary duties at the time involved mosquito identification. She would eventually become head of the mosquito identification lab for the state of Florida. During her tenure, Mrs. Beck was involved in many different insect control programs around the state and her research contributed to both the control of malaria and encephalitis as well as an early treatment program for tertiary syphilis. Mrs. Beck worked closely with many state health officers including Dr. John Mulrennan who was instrumental in Florida’s work on mosquito control. Mrs. Beck retired after working nearly five decades for the state of Florida.

Keywords

Mosquitoes, Mosquito control, Malaria prevention, Public health, Public health personnel, University of South Florida. College of Public Health

Extent

01:01:30; 35 page transcript

Language

English

Media Type

Oral histories

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

C53-00002

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