Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-04
GORCAS DIES IN
j. s. HOSPITAL
IN OLD ENGLAND
Former Surgeon General of
the Army, Considered One
of the Worlds Greatest
Physicians, SuCCumbS.
lay MORNING JoUEHAL sagetAl LEASED wiRsI
london. SmnhnN. JulN nm

peaceful. He was unconscious
most of the time for the last few
days, according to the hospital at
tendants and was not even able to
recognize Mrs Gorgas or Brigadicr
General Noble, the only Americans
present at the end.
Colonel Kennedy, medical con-
suItant at the hospital, was in con-
slant waiting ON General Gorsas
and every facility was afforded by
the British military authorities for
proper medical attention.
1t was stated by General Noble
that Bright's disease was the i'm
mediate cause of his death.
Mai Gen. William c. Gorgas was
considered one of the worlds
greatest authorities on military
medicine and surgery. He fought
and, defeated the malarial moSqni-
TO in Panama and thus made pos
sible the building of that great wa
torWay. He dislOdged yellow fever
from it's century stronghold in
the United states government and
the Rockefeller foundation super
wise d campaigns against that dread
disease in Central America, Peru
and Ecuador.
At the invitation of the Brit
ish government he went to South
Africa in 1918 to establish sanitary
conditions in the Rand, as a result
of which he received high hOnors
from the medical profession in
London and oxford university con-
ferred a degree upon him,
In the last ten years his services
were sought to give battle TO
plaques in many parts OF the
world. When the typhus epidemic
began in Serbia in the war an ei-
fort was made to have him under
take the campaign against it but at
that time he was needed to direct
the medical and surgical work Tor
the American army in Franco.
He was decorated by the French
government and made command
or of the Legion of Honor ana
knighted by King George of Eng
! land. the latter for, as the KING
EXPRESSED it to him, making post
ble the construction Of the great
canal, r,,,
In the days of the old French
oonnnanv which attempted to build
t .,a pama1 tronicol diseases annual
" claimed one-fourth of all It's
~ ,' I,ar.,'' Tbe French were power
| WV f,o mic Dastilence.
w I,,'on Cornrai Gorgas became
.,,a,',i sanitary officer of the ca
Ho,''a q, the annual death
nc, to1, hoon rednced. but it was
I'm ett'' diTficult to obtain the vast
SUI SUI, W ~ ,yo,k mon necessary and to
~ aiaS COW thnee disabled by malaria
car i'i co ,i'u ond dvnsenterv.
S'In a;no vaors nv a systematic
oomnaipn for the destruction of the
,,1osGuito General Gorgas virtually
drova these diseases from the 18th
VI VIZ when he gave up the work 10
n ar, thn most of surgeon general
~ the army in 1914, deaths among
DO canal workers had been re-
I ,!o,i 20 fiyn ner thousand an
u a''o,It. Conrress' in recognition OF
W. ';a'','S hievenont made him a major
w., and the world hailed him
as one of the great men OF medic"I
n a,o U,,u
~ ,,Sooorition of his services he
,,.a ,,ode a member of the 18TH
! Na9 Nv ,,r1ieeion and served as
i,,i s, ,,Ut;, no was made surgeon
s -,,,
sei III n,or,, IN combating yellow
e.,,ar ~ Havana began when he
leNe et 80 Cnha with the rank of ma
Went 10 w. w" Gn,nish war, When the
Jol III ,''e ordod he remained as san
W., va. off;ca, of the island. Havana
la 10, hoen for more than a century
. ,iau soous If yellow fever infection
s li al tho northern hemisphere
iUI an h iaft nho in C19O2 the is.
wv, Nn had heer cleaned up and IIa'
Ia'l, '', n,hora previously from zoe
wanna oo Wa annually succumbet
70 i,-Io favor since has beer
70 Se III, froo from the disease.
VII WIN, ,u"IS IN tho canal Zone, Gen.
w nv n,e.,la, ,ieited Guayaquil am
eral h2' 90 a Nan tn rid that city
III" phe" w." nc Tho "nesthole of the
to :" from the yellow fever
scourRe an" tio when the grea
,,'nr, hngan
We Gov ofter the United states en-
tered the world war General hor
teIeu ,me the organization o
gas an,'ouHUo' eyetem devised fol
ne Reconsideration" for soldiers
elle ,,ad IN the war which included
cLlpP.. ,'tohiisbment of orthopedic
.ile behind the firing lines II
I.ospi,e''' reconstruction hospitals II
IRA Flo', Not centers of America anC
me sn.rajning Of crippled men an(
ll.e oratinn for resuming their vo
pre .ios or learning new ones.
cat uonoroi Gorgas reached the ag'