New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-13
MORE YOUNG DOCTORS.
GRADUATED BY CORNELL.
Colonel Gorgas on Panama at Nedi-
cal School Commencement.


At the ninth commencement exercises OF the
Medical School Of Cornell yesterday President J. q.
Schurman OF Cornell University conferred degrees
seventy-two graduates. OF whom ten were young
women. There present large number %
friends and relatives of the graduates. and each
as his name or her name was called received gem
ercus applause.
Cary Eggleston, son Of George Cary EggIestou,
headed the honor roll for the best record Of four
years work The other names the honor roll were
Robert Edward Gaby. Joshua Ronshim. David VIII
son, William Crooks Thro. Edith Eugenia Johnson.
George Whiting Wheeler. George Norman Pease.
Lucy Carleton Reed and Edward Montgomery Well
berry.
The John Metcalfe Polk prizes awarded as
follows: Cary Eggleston. $50; Robert Edward
Gaby, H25. and Joshua Ronshim. S75. ROyaIe
Hamilton Fowler the $50 prize. awarded by
Professor Dana for the best series OF reports OF
clinical cases presented in his clinic during the
session Two prizes, OF $50 and the other OF
so, presented by Professor Whiting for the best
work in otology,, were won respectively by George
Whiting Wheeler and Robert Edward Gaby.
me address to the graduating class made by
Colonel William c. Gorgas L. S. A. who is In
charge Of sanitary measures in the Panama Canal
zone. Colonel GOrgas. who was graduated from,
the old Bellevue Hospital College tventy-eight
years ago. took his subject the scientific side
OF the eradication Of malaria and yellow fever from
the canal zone He dwet the work OF which
he also had charge. done by the United States
army IN Cuba to eliminate yellow fever. and sur
Feyed the progress made the isthmus 70 stamp
out both yellow fever and malaria
The great advance in tropical sanitation r.. saf5
was due to the discovery that yellow fever could
only be transmitted by the stegonyia mosquito III,
said that after Cuban affairs were turned over To-
tHe Cuoans there was a relaxation OF vigilance
put that now with the American officials again IN
charge on the island conditions were better
Cuba. said Colonel Gorgas. was q constant
Hsndce 10 the Southern States. and IN fact TO thu
~noie country before the sanitary work was be-
sun mere Is at present no yellow fever IN Pan
ana' and malaria is well under control Tia man
WORKING on the canal and their families are a, Wig
orous as they could be In this country
II looked as II the canal could never be built IN
| Tess yellow fever were extermnated The fever
could never spread now, If IL were introduced
from outside through rigid quarantine"
Colonel Gorgas attributed much Of the success os
the sanitary work in Havana TO the fact thar IA
was done under military rule. incidentally compl-
menting General Leonard Wood then In charge OF
Cuban administration
In the work OF sanitation and fumigation on tbs
isthnus' ne said. they had used 10000 pounds OF
pyretrunl' an insect powder. and 10000 pounds OF
sulphur. The malariaI mosquito, the anophelez "a
We'll as the stegomyia. had been attacked with
great energy, although IT was much more difacus
TO protect the laborers in the camps along the fifty
miles Of the canal strip than that half OF the zone
population which is concentrated IN Panama and
Colon.
The system adopted was that OF destroying the
breeding places within two hundred yards OF the
| various camps, OF urging the OF screens in
houses and of prescribing three grains of quinns
daily. Both surface and sUbsoiI DRAINAGE had to
be used, and in some cases a concrete dftching to
| prevent the growth OF the luxuriant vegetation
which provided the maIartal mosquito with breed
ing places Colonel Gorgas said, however that
three-qGarters OF the sanitary commission expend-
ltureS went FOR other than these purposes for tho
/ care or the sick and for food supplies.
| linen he made this prediction: Il am inclined IN
mink that the advances made in trOptcal sanita-
| tlon Will have much wider and more far reach
/ ing erect than freeing Havana and Panama from
/ yellow fever or enabling to build the Panama
/ that any population coming tropics can
protect itself against yellow fever and malaria by
| measures simple and inexpensive. With these
| diseases eliminated life the tropics for the
Ango-S Saxon viii be. believe. more heaIthfuI than
In the temperate zone. and gradually. In the next
( TWO centuries. tropical countries. which offer a
greater return for mans labor than the temperate
| come again the centres OF wealth population and
civilization, they at the dawn history
Before the comforting OF degrees by DR. Schur-
man. Or. W. NJ Polk. dean Of the medical college,
called attention TO the fact that 50 per cent the
graduates had already received appointments IN
the different hospitals in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Distant parts OF the world represented
OF the honor men. is from Toronto. Lenlusl IfI-
cas- Joshi from Bombay. India, and Miss Ehbs
Elizabeth Alnlgren. from Stockholm, Sweden
DR.. SChurman wore the bright red and blue gown
OF the University OF Edinburgh. where he rs4
ceived the degree OF doctor OF laws.
A reception in pispensary Han followed the ex-
ercises-