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Show E I Wallers I Receives Praise 1 For War Work 1 High praise of tho work porform- -m ed by Captain K. II. Walters of tho ijjS sanitary coips, ono of Utah's gold M1 stors, while on duty In Franco, U S contained In a communication recent- SB ly received by President IJ. 6. Pet- if erson ot tho Utah Agilcultural Col- H lege from Colonel J. T. Silver. This M letter wits written In toply to a per- , fl Mimal note of Inquiry rognidlng thn H details of Captain Wallers' death U fiom President Peterson to Colonel H Sliver. Captain Walters was an nt- H umnus of the Utnh Agricultural Col- H lege and formerly n faculty member. H Excerpts fiom Colonel Sliver's let- H ter follow: H "Captain Walters Joined tho Am- H erlcnn Expeditionary forces In No- H vcmber, 1917, nnd was continuously H on duty In tho laboratory division ot H the medical department to the tlmo H of his death. He Joined tho central H medical depnttment laboratory, A. E. H !'., nt Dijon, France, In January, H 1918, and noon thereafter was plac- H ed In charge ot the chemical depart- H ment of that Institution and remain- . H ed In rhnrgo up to his ile.nth. IIIh H work consisted largely In tho nnnly- -H sis of food products, the detoriuln.i- M Hon of their purity; the chemical ex- H nnilnntlon of pathological .specimens; J the chemical analysis of suspected fl water supplies; tho preparation and Mwt stnndnidizatlon of tho numerous M chemical teagents supplied to the M mobile organizations of the Inborn- U lory service; and more especially, mU for tho two or three months prhir " M to his death, in tho manufacture V M a very large amount of a solution M tor Intravenous Injection In cases ot , M juhock and hemorrhage. His services M were particularly valuable lu tilts' ' M latter work, ho having porfected H methods of Its manufacture in coop- mm oration with tho department of sur- M gleal research, connected with tho M Central Medical Department labora- M tory. M "In addition to tho routine work M of his department from tlmo to tlmo H ho gave lectures on chemical moth- H ods of water examinations in tho Jm field and on allied topics, to tho sttt- H dent classes of medical depatttnent B officers receiving Instruction at tho H Central Laboratory. ' M "The services rendered by Captain B Walters to tho Medical department B of tho American Expeditionary fore- H es we 10 of very great valuo, Tho IJ evidence of this Is that he wns rec- H ommendod for promotion to ti cap- flj tnlncy In April. 1918, and ngaln lit HI July, 1918. Ills untimely death, unfortunately, cut short n enrer H which was fill) of promise. HH "Ho was taken sick September 17 1918, with what appeared to bo nn H attack of Influenza. Two or three HH days Inter this developed into a very HB n plil and fulminating typo of brnu- BJ cho-pneuuionla. His death took BB place at base hospital No. 17, Dl'Jon, BBJ Franco, on September -, 1918. BB "The facts given you herein uro 1359 matters of personal knowledge to fsi&l me since n gicnt deal of Captain Wnl- Sife tor's work was done under my ob- Es$p? nervation, and I can nssuru you that , jgc&f In addition to the loss Buffered by JJRe the Central Medical department Inh- ; MSB oratory, his death camo as a great I OHO personal loss to all of us. Ills nn- LJjKr timely death meant the loss not only j QfJS of an otlicer with his scientific at- '.jjBra tntnments, but also of n friend wiio iEls had endeared himself to us by rea- lffr$m son ot his lovable character and ; JBBi many flno qualities." i HHc i ajSjBj |
