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Show 1 MUOR GENERAL I mm gorgas DIES IN LONDON World's Foremost Authority on Military Medicine Stricken K With Apoplexy DRIVES DISEASE FROM PANAMA CANAL ZONE Aged Expert Retired From Army After Great Service A In World War iOndon i - .. rol Willlai i surgeon general of the United S atee B army, died at an rarly hour this morn- H Major General William C. Gorgas fl was considered one of the world's H foremost authorities on military medl- H lnc und surgery, lie fought and 3e- M featcd the malarial mosquito in Pan- I I ama, and thus mad poi Ibb 1 1 1 b Id V lng of Mint great ffiilrrw.iy. He die- Hl lodged yellow fever from its cehtury-1 Hl il l stronghold In llfoana and Under I 9 the direction of the l'nlted Statea gov - H eminent and the Rockefeller Found-1 H tion ropervlsed campaigns against that H dread disease in Central America. I'eru 1 VH At the invitation of the British kov- J kf rlca J H 191.1 to establish snnltary conditions' IH In the Rand a a result of which he I received lilch honors from the medic il 1 J profession In London and Oxford I'nl- 9H crslty conferred a degree upon him vcmA k jLfl In f v er' nought to give battle to plagues A KHS n- ,'pfcu;i cpidfi'i hr;:an In Serbia ! KH In li e w. r rffori wsi rnulo 'o rri- : HH htm undertake the ca.mp.tign against : nt that time he was H to direct the medical and JE,M worl- fur iMti ' American Army ir. Fr.u .Jk WV'.'hii'' ma l. i i man0er r3p1iC I.r-gKilif I' . T. , fcS Jgjfcing Georrfg f.f England the I i" 'CH .C,, "10 ''i expressed it to him,' VL. jTiP iking possifu t)i" construction of I the i- i i i naer H t WmUWmMl''c r.f til- i. id h II lvr'ich .'i p'. . io Iniild the claJme'i! on--f..urh ... - orkers Tre 'rYrch wen- powerless before ojils pfMilnce jWhen Geiier.il OJorgas became gen-eml gen-eml snnltary officer of the canal commission, com-mission, the annual death toll had beet) redhced, but it vas still dlffi- uit to 0btaJn tho rast urmy of workmen work-men nocessanr and to cure for these disabled by majarin, yellow fecr and dvsontoi'. DRIVCS OVT DIM SK !n nine by a systomatlc cim- palg) for th- destruction of the mosr qulto. General Gorgns virtually drove dlaense from the Isthmus. When h-ga"o h-ga"o tip the work to uceept the p,.s-of p,.s-of 9Jrgeon-gencrar in the army hi 1911. drih among the cnnnl workers work-ers had h-of) reducoj u per thousand thous-and annnall. Congress in recognition recogni-tion of his achievement. mad lllm 1 majorgenaran and the world hilled j him as one of Jk great Kirn of :n d:-cjiI d:-cjiI science. In rccognltloii of his services hej w.is made a mtqVbeta if the Isthmian i Ktnmlsalon -md sv-rved n. s-ich until he tvns made su tarpon -gene ral. His x or'; In Aropastlng yejicw fsver In Havana began Vhen lie wont to Cuba with the rankNof major In the 1 Spanish war. Vhrnt lie vrar endr d he remained u:- ui.i'-y , f 1 1 . - r ' WjKtM he Island. Bavang lVtl been for fHR more than a een'mw Ml focus oT yc- WmSUA low fever Infection foAiiM of the! HpH Northern Hemisphere V'hen he fr ! EJU Cuba in 1602 the Island) hd been BR med up nnd Havana, where pr-- vloualy from 20 to 1,200 hd annually' H Mircumbod to yellow fever since has! LmmmM been virtually tree from the (lse.ir "IM STTIOIJ OF VM II I ' H WMIe In the canal zone. (i,Mi-r.! Bin , C'Orgas visited Guaynoull and Mapped I out a plan to rid thai city, long known , I as the "pesthole of the lJHcli..,' from the yellow fever seen. rge and his plan j was In process of execution whty th. great war began. Soon after the l'nlted States entered the world war General Gorgas Announced An-nounced the organization of the exUn- ty- system dvl-ed for the r.-.-Qn-structlon" for xoldier-s tilppleil in u war which Included the ejrtab:hni.ut H of orthopedk hospitals behind the fir. H lng lines in France, reconstruction ho-' H pltals in the great renters of America H nnd the retraining of crippled men and IH preparation for resuming their voca- H Hons or learning new ones. B Oeneral Co-.- , . . . erhed t he age hm- It while still on duty In Trance In W 19 IS. When the war was over he wan VI retired from active service In the armv 11 Subsequently In 1019 he was head of Wi the yellow fever commission organ-1 ized by the Rockefeller Foundation W and In that capacity made an exten- MU slve tour uf Cenei.il ami South Am.-, ra to direct the work Of eradleatlng I yellow fv, r from some of Its breed- n lng center, notably In Peru and !vl iador l K I I I, M KI. ra2H King Qsorge of England conferred MWBII n him in June. 1920, the decoration SHHl "f Knlaht Cdmmandor of tho Orde-- If) f Sslnt Michael and Salm George jQ3mmi General Oorgai wnn born In Mobile SpM A,e-. Oct 3. 1SC4, the son of a Con- IMll f-dorat genem.. He n-M graduated fjJMU from the University of the South In i.TH N (Continued on page 3, 00 ! Major General William Gorgas Dies in London (Continued from Page 1' 1875. He was appointed a surgeon In the Cnited States army In 1S80. vV'hlle 111 London In June. 1920. on his way t. South Africa to again Improve suni-:at' suni-:at' conditions there, he was takfti 111 and it was announced that he had previously suffered a stroke of apoplexy. apo-plexy. 00 |