Evening star., 1917-12-08
|DR. A. D. MELV|ND|ES
|L0NG NU.S.S SERVICE
Chief of Bureau of Animal In
dustry Succumbs After
Three-Year Illness.
WAS NATIONALLY KNOWN

DR.. Aonzo Dorus Melvin, chief of the
bureau of animal industry. Depart
| ment Of Agriculture. died last evening
| at his residence. 1851 Park road north
west, from pulmonary hemorrhage. DIR.
Melvin had been Ill for three years, but
was not entirely incapacitated He
| was at his desk in the bureau of animal
| industry Thursday. The news of his
death came as a shock to officials and
employees of all offices and bureaus of
the department.
| Funeral arrangements have not yet
been made, pending arrival of relatives
here.
Head of Bureau Since 1905.
+ DR.. Melvin since he became chief Of
! the bureau of animal industry in 1905
| became nationally known III live stock
circles throughout the country. The
public services of DIR. Melvin that per-
| lhaps made him best known to the pub
| lie were in connection with three out
| breaks of the foot-aud-mouth disease
among cattle, all of which were stamped
| out.
| have been marked by the total eradi-
cation of the cattle fever tick in 81 per
cent of a great extent OF southern ter
ritory quarantined in 1906. In his term
l
law and similar laws looking to the
betterment of the live stock industry,
lall of which were advocated by Df.
Melvin, were enacted by Congress:
| DR.. Melvin before he became chief OF
| the bureau of animal industry had been
assistant chief of the bureau from 1899.
| His service with the department began
| in Chicago in 1885. He was transferred
| to work in Baltimore in 1887. In 1890
| he was sent to Liverpool, England, to
| inspect animals and vessels from the
| United States. In 1892 he was placed
| in charge of meat inspection at Chi
| cago and was chief of the inspection d.
! vision from 1895 to 1899, when he be-
| came assistant chief of the bureau OF
| animal industry.
| DIR. Melvin was a member of the ad-
visory board of the hygienic laboratory
of the United States public health serv-
! ice. He was president of the American
Veterinary Medical Association in 1909
and 1910. and was an honorary associ-
ate of the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons, London. He was a member
of the New York milk committee and
| the United States Live Stock Sanitary
Association and an honorary member
of the Illinois Veterinary Association.
He also was member of the Cosmos
iClub of Washington and of the Alpha
Psi Fraternity and of the Salt Lake
City Lodge of the Scottish Rite of Ma
sonry.
Also Wrote Extensively.
DIR. Melvin was the author of numerous
publications dealing with animal diseases
and other animal industry topics. Among
the more important of these are the
| Federal Meat Inspection Service, Dermal
Mycosis Associated With Sarcoptic Mango
in Horses, the 1908 Outbreak of Foot and
Mouth Disease in the United States, State
and Municipal Meat Inspection and Mu-
nicipal Slaughterhouses, Economic. I'm
lportance of Bovine tuberculosis, and the
South American Meat Industry.
| DR.. Melvin was born at Sterling, ILL.,.
October %, 1862, the son of Addison
/ Smith and Cordelia Mckinney Melvin.
iAftet attending elementary schools and
| a bushes college he spent four years on
la stock farm. In 1885 he was given the