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Leaves Wife and Seven Children.

wife Maj Eadie of the surgeon generals
office.
Leaves Wife and Seven Children.
Dr. Carroll leaves wife and seven
children, besides a mother and two sis
tiers, also living in Washington.
The arrangements for the funeral have
not yet been completed. The burial will
be at Arlington Thursday afternoon, but
nothing further has been arranged
DR.. Carroll had a remarkable career.
He was born in England in 1854, and was
educated at Albion House Academy
Woolwch, graduating in 1860. Coming
to this country, he took a course at the
University of Maryland and served as an
enlisted man in the medical corps He
took a postgraduate course in bucteri-
ology, and in recognition of his work in
Cuba was given a commission ana served
as Il first lieutenant till about year ago,
when a special act was passed in Con-
gress giving him the rank of ma jor. He
was the successor of DR.. Walter Reed
at the Army Medical Museum and the
curator of that institution. He was an
authority on tropical diseases, ana espe-
cially yellow fever, being in constant
demand for lectures and contributions to
medical journals all over the country
1t was soon after his promotion to the
rank of major that he was taken i'll.
The affection of the heart from which
he suffered was Il rare bacterial disorder
of the heart casing. He himself knew
that there was little hope of his recOv-
cry from the first and confided us much
to some of his friends month or two
before he died
Ranks With Greatest Discoveries.
The service OF DR.. Carroll and his then
superior. DR.. Reed, in locating the source
of infection in yellow fever has been
ranked by many medical authorities with
the discovery of vaccination or of anti
septics. Yellow fever up to the time of the
commissions discovery in 1899 was the
more dreaded disease because the
source of infection was a mystery. There
no prccaution possible against II, ex-
cept quarantine, and that seemed very I'M
certain and curiously ineffective at times.
When an epidemic once started there
seemed no way of fighting it, and it had
to be allowed to run its course. The plague
lay dormant in the winter and then broke
out in the spring. 1t caused untold loss of
money and life in the United States, and
this country had to regularly quarantine
against Cuba in the spring and keep 1t up
till late in the fall.
The yellow fever commission of which DR..
Carroll was member went to Cuba first
in 1897 Its work was interrupted by the
war and was not resumed TIL after the
close of hostilities. The subject under
study was the so-called bacillus of Sana-
reli but a long course of observation fixed
suspicion on the mosquito, and in a long
series of eliminating tests this suspicion
developed almost into certainty. The
suspicion could not be verified till there
had been an actual demonstration on a hui
man being DIR. Carroll volunteered for the
service and allowed himself to be bitten by
a mosquito that had been infected from
three well-marked cases of yellow fever.
Within four days he was taken i'll and
suffered a severe attack of the fever. 1t
was the first case of experimental yellow
fever on record Other trials We're made
with other subjects, and, the source of in
lection having been definitely established,
it was comparatively easy to fight the in
lection.
Destroyed in Havana.
Havana where yellow fever had been epi-