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Show former fairview Doctor Appointed Dr. Sundwall To Study Aliens for Government. Govern-ment. News of the appointment of Dr. John Sundwall, son of Peter Sund-1 Sund-1 wall, of Fairview as an assisfant surgeon in the United States service to be detailed in connection with the examination of arriving aliens, will be leceived with pleasure by his many friends in this section. Dr. Sundwall was in Savannah for three montns this year, connected with the United States Marine Hospital. He assisted Dr. C. H. Lavinder and Dr. R. H. Grimm at the hospital in the research work and on pellagra. He t is a very brilliant man and the surgeons sur-geons at the Marine Hospital are j delighted to know that he has been appointed. Both Dr. Grimm and Dr. Clebourne speak in the highest ! terms of him, stating that the government gov-ernment is fortunate in getting such a man. The public health service has been searching the country for fourteen ; insanity experts to whom the gov-jermentwill gov-jermentwill offer commissions as assistant surgeons. Congress authorized author-ized the appointment of six such surgeons, and Dr. Sundwall is the first to be appointed. He recently stood the examinations in Washington. Washing-ton. Surgeon General Blue has expressed express-ed himself as saying there is no better place in the world for the study of mental diseases than at one of the large immigration stations ! like Ellis Island. Dr. Sundwall is an M. A., Ph. D. and an M. D. He received his literary liter-ary and Philosophic degrees at the University of Chicsgo and then 'graduated from John Hopkins Uni-j Uni-j versity in Medicine. He then went ! to Europe, studying there for two ! years. He. is regarded as an authority author-ity on anatomy and was sent to Savannah as a special assistant to Dr. Lavinder and Dr. Grimm, both ! of whom are the leading authorities in America on pellagra. I While in Savannah Dr. Sundwall ! was offered the anatomy or pathology at the University of Kansas, and he accepted it, and now holds the position. He will resign in a short time and take up his new work. |