| Show I E r tr Life Lf in inLine s 1 e In Line of Duty Sol lol JI for r more than 20 years the Public Service has bas conducted studies olm of very wry vital disease which occurs in certain tain areas in the WesternS Western S States lles This 8 disease is known as Mountain Spotted Fever Dura Dur Dur- a Ih the course of the investigations h by the Public Health Services oar workers have bave lost their lives roan ram n I the disease contracted in con con- on with their official duties The Off most recent worker to lose his ife fe from Rocky Mountain Spotted IJ j ever ewer is A. A Leroy Kerlee who wasIA was wasI I IA 1 ed in the Public Health Serice Ser- Ser SerI I t. t rice lice Laboratory at Hamilton Mon Mon- ana ana as a bacteriologist He lie was a aI I graduate of the Montana State j U i gc and had been in the Service 1 since l September 1927 J bose rose who had previously lost their iron in this work are Dr T. T B. B Mc- Mc lc i 4 Clintic who died in 1921 W. W E. E Get- Get tit er a laboratory assistant who died in 1922 and G. G II H. Cowan Coan a aI aj j I field assistant who died in 1924 J j I The TUie warfare of science against has bas its hazards A Leroy Ker Ker- Iee the supreme sacrifice in the I of the laboratory |
