Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-15
I OF HONOR
 HEALTH SERVICE ! McClintic's Death in |sshing ton Partially |lfaqic-Was One of Youngest Surgeons.
hK SPOTTED FEVER
benth Young Surgeon to Sacri. |Y His Life in Montana For
 The Public Good.

Ellington. Setp. 14.-The recent of Past Assistant Surgeon Thos bnan McClintic, of the Public h Service, has brought forcibly the minds of Americans the of this branch of the govern service and the risks run by it's bers who fearlessly expose them $ to dangers of all kinds of con- bus disease in order that the b of the remainder of the United may remain intact and unmen- McClintic's demise was partic- tragic. He was one or the est assistant surgeons in the
 Early in his career he be- take special interest in the of the "spotted fever in the Valley section of Montana and numerous Investigations of the y, it's cause and remedy. Sev- ears ago at his own request he lent to Montana to better study Bease in it's native habitat and to recommendations for it's con- letlraed to this city in the to write a monograph on the N and married Miss Theresa ], Washington society belle. bok her back with him to Men, Eh April. In August he returned to Washington, this time to die the effects of the spotted fever he had voluntarily given his study. His heroic spirit, the ling impulse of hundreds of phy- and surgeons who labor for hprovement of the health of the d States, was never better shown in the manner of his death.
 k1 Stretched out on a cot in the nment hospital in this city and, fng that he was going to die be- the dawn came again. Dr. Me raised his left arm, on which red dozens of the tiny bumps the bites of the virulent "fev- ks' which transmit the disease, nid:
 Ell, guess Pm all in, but I these (the bites) don't disappear the boys have a chance to see he expected, he died in the ng-but the boys,' his confreres e Public Health Service, had 10 examine the bites of the tiny tick and make notes which ldd much to the sum of scien- knowledge upon the subject of ysterious spotted fever which liy carries off scores of per p lthe Bitter Root Valley, other one of the healthiest and most at spots to be found in Vest lnerica.
 death of Dr. McClintic added " the fourteenth name to the ol Honor" of the Public Health ' While the first to die from 'ariety of disease, Dr. McClintic no means the first volunta rily nllce h.s life for the public Before him went thirteen
 eight from yellow fever, three vpnold and two from tubercu- lfst martyr to science whose N enrolled on the list of those uase died in the pursuance of eu'y was William A. Waldo, who v Cairo. Ill.,, in 1878 to fight yuemlc of yellow fever which s'Me Up the Mississippi from %na and the Gulf. This was one Aofst waves of the deadly "yel- M which this section of the
 ever has experienced. Dr.. anu his associates managed
 ahu control it but not before 4'eu Dr. Waldo as one of it's vest, Florida, the outpost of '''ua Keys and formerly one uost unhealthy places along
 -cih coast, was the deathbed
 ''led two other officers of
 ", DTS. Glazier and McAdam. ,s. v uled fighting the yellow fev- 's'O and the second from the use few years later. Dr.
 nselt also died fighting the rs ~ lncursion of the same ene-
 'snoeleur Island. La, in 1893.
 p the excellent manner in
 government physicians have
 yellow scourge and the
 s taken in quarantine to
 entrance as well as it's