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With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Hoover set up health units to work in the flooded regions for a year.

These workers stamped out malaria, pellagra, and typhoid fever from many areas.

His work during the flood brought Herbert Hoover to the front page of newspapers almost everywhere, and he gained new accolades as a humanitarian.

The great victory of his relief work, he stressed, was not that the government rushed in and provided all assistance ; it was that much of the assistance available was provided by private citizens and organizations in response to his appeals.

" I suppose I could have called in the Army to help ," he said, " but why should I, when I only had to call upon Main Street.