Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-05

surgeon general OF the United States
Army, and Col. William c. Gorgas,
medical department, United States
| Army.
| Those Who Would Be Honored.
| Besides the members Of the yellow fever
| commission, all but one of which. DT.
| Acramonte, are now dead, those who
| would be honUred by the passage of this
| legislation are, according to the records
of the War Department, eighteen in
| number. \ letter to Senator Owen, sub
mitted with the bill, identifies them as
| follows:
William ii. Dean, private, Troop 3. 9TH
| Cavalry, of Grand Rapids, Mich.
John K. Kssinger, private, Hospital
| Corps, now residing at South Bend, Ind.
John J. Moran. civilian clerk, employed
at the headquarters OF Gen. F1tZhugh
| Lee. at Quemados. Cuba.
| Levi f. Folk, private. Hospital Corps,
now sergeant of TIE Hospital Corps,
stationed at the recruit depot at Column
| bus barracks Ohio.
| Clyde l.. West, private, Hospital Corps.
Charles G. sontag, private. Hospital
! .Orps.
| Warren Gadsden yernegan, private.
Hospital Corps. now at McMeekln' Fla.
William Olsen, private. Hospital Corps,
| now at Plum .lty. Wis.
| Wallace w. Forbes private, Hospital
Corps: now at Minneapolis, Mimi.
| John II. Andrus, private, Hospital
Corps.
John r. Billiard. native of Massachu-
| sets and graduate of Harvard.
Paul Hamann, private. I'D Company,
| Coast Artillery.
| Albert w Covington. private. 23d Com
pany, Coast Artillery: now a sergeant.
I'D Company, Coast Artillery Corps, at
Fort Mckinley. cortland. Me-
DIR. Robert p. Cook. contract surgeon,
now at Winchester, Va.
Edward Weatherwalk, enlisted man in
the army.
James Hildebrand, enlisted man in Hos
pital Corps and still in the service, sta
| toned at recruit depot, Columbus bar
racks, Ohio.
Thomas NJ England, enlisted man in
Hospital Corps. and still in the service
as sergeant, and stationed at Fort Ward,
Wash.
Credit to DR.. Reed.
| DIR. Walter Reed is given credit for
| initiating the plan for testing a theory
at the time not accepted by scientific
men-t1at yellow fever was transmitted
by mosquitoes. He directed the expert
ments which successfully upheld the the
Dry, and the discovery is believed to have
saved thousands of lives since then
through the adoption of the proper pre-
ventive methods.
| At q memorial meeting of scientific
| men in Washington after DIR. Reed
DEATH Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of staff
of the army. had this to say of him.
II know of no other man on this side
of the world who has done 50 much for
humanity as Dr. Reed. His discovery re-
suits in the saving of more lives an
nually than were lost In the Cuban war,
and saves the commercial interests OF the
| world a greater financial loss each year
| than the cost of the Cuban war. He came
| to Cuba at a time when one-third of the
officers of my staff died of yellow fever,
and we were discouraged at the failure
of Our efforts to control the disease.
Havana Rid of Disease.
I'm the months when the disease was
ordinarily worst the disease was checked
and driven from Havana. That was the
first time in nearly two hundred years
that the city had been rid of it. The
value of his discovery cannot be appre-
ciated by persons who are not familiar
with the conditions of tropical countries.
Hereafter 1t will never be possible for yell
low fever to gain such Roadway that
quarantine will exist from the mouth OF
| the Potomac to the mouth OF the Rio
Grande. Future generations will appre-
ciate fully the value of DIR. Reeds serv-
ices His was the originating, directing
/ ~-'~
the others were assistants only.
Dr.. Carroll, the second member of the
| commission suffered a severe attack OF
| yellow fever as result of the expert
| ments At that time he had n wife and
| five children who had no other means of
| support than his pay as an acting assist
| ant surgeon. In recognition of his serv-
ices Congress passed an act promoting
| him to the rank of major in March, 1907,
| and six months later he died in this city.
Fatal to DR.. Lazear.
| DIR. Jesse w. Lazear. the third member
Of the commission. was native OF Bal
| timore and a graduate of Johns Hopkins
| University, with professional degrees
| from Columbia University. September 49,
| 1900, DR.. Lazear, while on a visit to Las
| Animas Hospital, for the purpose of col
Letting blood from yellow fever patients
| for study, was bitten by a mosquito which
i he deliberately allowed to remain on the
back of his hand until it had satisfied its
hunger. Five days later he came down,
i without other exposure, with yellow fever
and died. He was then thirty -four years
old. and he left wife and two children.
Il one of whom was only a few months old
and whom he had never seen. A battery
in Baltimore harbOr was, by direction of
the Secretary of War, named in his
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