The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-10
CORCAs
WILL DISCUSS MALARIA
Habitable to Address
Doctors.
CONQUERED YELLOW FEvE
Head OF Army Surgeons Now Turn
ing His Attention to Elimination
Of Malaria by Kidding Country Of
Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes.

Surgeon General William Crawford
Gorsas. Of the United States Army. did
not actually help hew ont channel
through the miles and miles OF noun
tains and hills that divided the waters
OF two great oceans. and he, perhaps.
never saw the plans or those who SUI
perintended one of the most remark
able engineering feats the world ever
saw. but had It not been for his work
those who toiled In the Panama Canal
zone would probably have died of dis
ease long before they could have
brought their work to successful
termination.
General Gorgas is a prominent figure
at the meeting of the Southern Medical
association He arrived ut the Jeffer-
son Hotel yesterday, and laat night
sn'd he expected to remain In Richmond
throughout the convention.
WILL OrEN DISCUSSION
AT MALARIA SYMPOSIUM
On Wednesday afternoon General
Gorgas will open the discussion of the
symposium on malaria, when the re-
port or the malaria commission of the
southern Medical Association will be
submitted. II don't believe that ! am
scheduied to mako any regular al
dress. said General Gorgas last night,
put l shall take part in the ds:u.-
sirn on malaria"
IT Is for his work in discriminating
insect pests and driving out the yellow
fever from the Isthmian Canal Zone
that General Gorgas is best known to
The American people. although prior to
that time he did similar work in vari-
GUS parts of the country. BY special
act or Congress. March 8, 1903, he was
made assistant surgeon-general for
yellow fever work at Havana, Cubn
ana there he succeeded In obtaining
wonderful results toward bettering
sanitary conditions In 1907 General
Gorsas was the recipient of the Mary
Kingsley medal from the Liverpoof
School of Tropical Medicine, and for
MS singularly successful work he has
been accorded high honors from medi-
cal organizations In many parts of the
world: Since his appointment as sur
geon In the United States Army. June
IL, 1880, General Gorgas has been con-
tinuously in the service of his country.
He was born In Mobile, Ala, and
MS father was an officer in the South
ern Confederacy. He married NIss
Marie Cook Doughty. of Cincinnati
Ohio.
MUST ELIMINATE
GERM-CARRiJNG MOSQUITOES
Speaking of his work in various
tropical countries last night. General
Gorgas said the only way to prevent
yellow fever and malaria liz to eliminate
the germ carrying mosquito. This feat,
ne said. is not so hard to accomplish,
as might be supposed, provided the
proper scientific methods are employed
In our work in the Panama Canal
Zone" he said. I'VE employed prac-
tically the Same methods in fighting
disease that we used In Havana. Cuba.
The conditions in both places were
very much the same"
Asked IL he did not think that one
of the main reasons why the French
were unable to complete the digging
OF the Panama Canal was because their
workmen were prevented by disease
and pestilence, General Gorgas said he
believed that was one Of the reasons
why they failed. I'm parts OF the
United States" said General Gorgas
"the people have the same problem
that presented itself In the Canal Zone
The prevention of typhoid fever. ma
laria. yellow fever. pellagra and other
diseases are some of the problems pub
lie health officials OF the Southern
States are discussing at their meet
ings.