1. Correspondence and preliminary material, 1941

File — Box: 2, Folder: 7

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: This small collection of J. F. McClendon's papers, 19121953, contains research correspondence, records of his work with the American Public Health Association's Study Committee on Endemic Goitre, and typescripts of his published articles and lectures. The bulk of the material concerns McClendon's work on goiter and iodine.

Series 1 contains a chronological file of correspondence, 1925-1944, concerning biochemistry; product samples and information; the effect of iodine on goiter; a few items relating to McClendon's research with Paul A. Clifford ofjthe Food and Drug Administration on fluorine in food; and research into the function of histamine in blood. This series also contains correspondence, 1920-1946, concerning McClendon's research in goiter in countries around the world. The series is divided by subject country and contains a great deal of correspondence describing the frequency and incidence of goiter as well as occasional reprints and typescript copies or translations of relevant articles. There are many replies to a questionnaire on goiter which was issued by McClendon n 1934. This material was the basis for his published work, Iodine and the incidence of goiter (1939).

McClendon's work with the Study Committee on Endemic Goitre of the American Public Health Association, 1941-1945, is documented in Series 2. The series contains some correspondence, minutes of the committee's initial meeting in Michigan on 14-15 June 1941, and its report. McClendon was a Consultant to the committee.

Series 3 contains typescripts of several of McClendon's published articles concerning goiter or fluorine, 1912-1940, as well as a few lectures and one radio broadcast, 19341953.