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Milton Rosenau Milton Rosenau, born in the year 1869 in the state of Pennsylvania, was an influential American public health officials in the early twentieth century. After obtaining his degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1889, he joined the United States Marine Hospital Service, beginning a long and successful career in public service. After working for a few years under the supervision of the prestigious Dr. Joseph Kinyoun, Rosenau began his ascent into positions of greater authority. Camp Jenner Having been promised land by the Mexico-based Tlahuialila Company, about one thousand African Americans migrated across the Texas Mexican border. After finding conditions there far worse than what they had been promised, most decided to migrate back to the United States. In returning and crossing the border through Eagle Pass, they brought back with them a smallpox epidemic. This caused caused a health crisis at the border. Unwelcome amongst the inhabitants of Eagle Pass, the three hundred or so migrants were placed in a distant and ill-cared for camp just north of the Rio Grande River. After Texas officials sought help from the Surgeon General, Rosenau was sent in to manage the camp as a hospital. Upon arriving, Rosenau named the encampment as Camp Jenner, in honor of Edward Jenner, the British physician responsible for the first smallpox vaccine.|journal=Public Health Reports |date=11/1984 |volume=99 |issue=6 |pages=579-82 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1424647/ |accessdate=11/10/2018 |ref=Fighting Smallpox on the Texas Border}} In addition to treating smallpox and preventing its spread, Rosenau was charged with testing a new smallpox vaccine upon the migrants. Due to the potential of the quarantine generating political controversy, Rosenau helped to justify the endeavor, taking photographs that emphasized the happiness of the camp’s residents as well as the capable control exercised by doctors and camp guards. Scholars are divided on the success of Rosenau’s leadership at Camp Jenner. While some claim Rosenau’ helped avoid a much larger disaster, more recently, historian John Mckiernan-Gonzalez has suggested that Rosenau’s use of the untested vaccine possibly could have caused the deaths of several patients. Later Life Rosenau left the Hygienics Laboratory at Angel Island to take on a position as Professor at Harvard University. During his time there, he helped establish the Harvard and Massachusetts School for Health Officers. He also became the president of the Society of American Bacteriologists in 1934, and later, the president of the American Public Health Association in 1944.> Rosenau Passed away in 1946. His records are kept at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has a building in his name.>