Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-24
DIR. GEORGE KOBER
FATALLY STRICKEN
National Leader in Campaign
Against tuberculosis Was
Creator of Foundation.

DR.. George M. Kober of Washington.
a national leader for more than half a
century in crusades for the prevention
Of tuberculosis and creator of the
Kober Foundation, whose annual awards
in recent years have done much to pro-
mote medical research, died early today
Of a heart attack at his residence, 1919
@ street.
An invalid during the past year from
heart disease, DR.. Kober was too i'll to
take part in the award of the Kober
Foundation nonors last month a.
Georgetown University, with whose
School Of Medicine he had been identi-
fed as professor and dean for 81 years:
Early this week his condition seemed
slightly improved but for the last three
days he sank rapidly. Shortly before 9
O'Clock this morning he suffered stroke
which caused almost immediate death
Served On Charities Board.
Few men in the medical profession
have been more prominently identlfled
than DR.. Kober with the promotion OF
public health in the District of Column
bia and throughout the country. For
years president Of the tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION of the District and member Of
the District Beard Of Charities, DR.. Ko-
Der left the imprint of his work during
the So years of his residence in Wash
ington.
He was a member and leader in the
National Tuberculosis Association since
its founding and was equally promi-
nently identified with international
health movements.
A former assistant surgeon general of
the Army, DR.. Kober had been closely
associated with the Public Health
Service and other branches Of the Gov
eminent medical service. first as an
Army surgeon and later through his
activities with the American Medical
Association. the Association of Amer
lean Physicians, of which he formerly
was president, and other organizations
Big Loss to University.
His death, following closely on that
Of the late DR.. John A. Foote. dean of
the Medical School of Georgetown, was
a severe blow to that institution. Flags
were at half staff today at Georgetown
College and the Medical School in his
memory. DR. Kober was graduated from
the Medical School at Georgetown in
1873 and served on its faculty as pro-
fessor of hygiene until his appointment
as dean in 1906. He served in that
capacity until i'll health and advanced
years compelled him to ask relief from
those duties.
In August, 1923, Dr. w. Coleman
Nevis, S. j., president Of Georgetown
University appointed him dean emeri-
tus Of the Medical School and a regent
of the university.
II was in honor of the fiftieth ami
versary of his graduation in medicine
at Georgetown that Dr. Kober endowed
the foundation in 1923, which is wide
ly recognized in medical circles through
out the world.
Through the agency of the Kober
Foundation for lectureships and awards
the physician whose achievements have
been Of greatest importance to the ad-
yancement of medical research during
the year, Is honored annually. Among
noted medical scientists who have
achieved the Kober awards in recent
years are DR.. Simon Flexner Of the
Rockefeller Foundation of New York
and Dr. William H. WEIGH of Johns
Hopkins University -
Honored at home and abroad for his
own researches in medicine and sur
gerry, DR.. Kober was credited with hav-
ing been the first to publish notes on
the use of tincture Of iodine in a gun
shot wound OF the kneejoint and first
to point out the agency of flies in the
transmission Of typhoid fever.
Born in Germany.
A native of Germany, DR.. Kober
was born March 49, 1850, at AlSfeld,
HeSsen- Darmstadt His father, Jacob
Kober, was revoluticnist. and had
vowed that none of his sons should
serve under the German flag. Accord
ingly, he prevailed upon Gsorge Kober
to emigrate to the United States. which
he did in 1867. Upon his arrival he
found that his brother Charles had Sc
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