Exhibit 036 ยท Correspondence
Frederick T. Gates to John D. Rockefeller Sr., 12 December 1910
Gates explains lower cotton-mill output in heavily infected counties: "the inefficiency in the labor is due to the infection by the hookworm which weakens the operatives." He calculates: "It takes, by actual count, about 25 percent more laborers to secure the same results in the counties where the infection is heavier." He adds that this is "why the stocks of such mills are lower and the profits lighter."
- Source
- Office of John D. Rockefeller (Frederick T. Gates)
- Date
- 12 December 1910
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://archive.org/details/rockefellermedic00browrich
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Known through E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men (1979), p. 116; wording checked against Brown. Archival locator from Brown's note 37 (p. 254): Rockefeller Family Archives, record group 2.