Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-29
DR.. LOUIS MACKALL
BURIAL IN OAK HILL
Leading Georgetown Physi-
clan Victim of Heat Wave,
Was 81 Years Old.

Funeral services will be conducted this
afternoon for DIR. Louis Mackall, 81
years old. one of the best known physi-
clans Of the city and native of George
town, who died Sunday evening from
the effects of the heat wave, at his
home, 3044 o street.
Rev. John Temple and Rev. DR.. G.
Freeland Peter, canon of the Washing
ton Cathedral, will offlciate at the serv-
ices, which will be held at o'clock in
Christ Episcopal Church, Georgetown.
1nterment will be In Oak Hill Cemetery.
DIR. Mackall was q trustee of the cene-
terry for many years.
A member Of the Georgetown Uni
verSity Hospital stair and Garfield
Hospital staff for upward of IS or 80
years, DR.. Mackall had practiced gen.
eral medicine in Washington for nearly
40 years. He took up practice as q
family physician in old Georgetown,
where his father, DR.. Louis Mackall.
also q native, had administered to the
lis OF the community many years be-
fore him.
Hospital Feels Loss.
At Georgetown Hospital 1t was said
that DR.. Mackall's death would be
severe loss to the profession and the
community he had served so long. HE
was the ideal type of family physician
said DR.. George M Kober, his friend
and associate for many years. ITO his
patients he was friendly counselor as
well as physician, as his father had
been"
DR.. Mackalls father was one Of the
leading physicians of the city also and
had been connected with the George
town University Hospital since its
founding In 1870. Both father and son
were president Of the District of Column
bia Medical Society. For several gener-
atoms the Mackalls have lived in old
Georgetown.
DR.. Mackall had been in feeble health
recently, but last Saturday he had at
tended to his ONCE duties as usual. The
next day, however, he was brought down
by the extreme heat and succumbed
that evening.
He was born in Georgetown November
IS, 1865. His mother was Margaret Nc
Vean. He attended the University of
Virginia as young man and in 1890
received his degree In medicine from
Columbia, now the George Washington
University School of Medicine. For post
graduate work he went to Europe to
continue his studies and later married
Miss Lucy Haw Matthews of Washing
ton In 1899.
Had Wide Interests.
DR.. Mackall preferred general prac-
tice to specializing and was q type Of
physician that is now rapidly vanishing.
He was intensely interested In affairs
outside his profession and belonged to
the Cosmos Club, the Washington Board
OF Trade and the Chevy Chase Club.
DIR. Mackall was a trustee Of the
Peabody Library Institute and belonged
to Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was
member also Of many scientific and pro-
fessional organizations, as well as the
American Medical Association. Some of
these other bodies with which he had
been af1liated for years were the WASH
ington Academy of Sciences, the Their
apeutic Society, the Clinical Patho-
logical Society, the Southern Medical
Association, the Medical Society of Vir-
ginia, the Medical Society of Northern
Virgins and the Fairfax Medical So
ciety.
DR.. Mackall Is survived by his widow.
two sons, Charles and Louis Mackall, IT.,
and three daughters, Miss Emily Neck
all. Miss Margaret Mackall and Miss
Lucy Mackall.