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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 49.

Walter Reed and Yellow Fever

Major Walter Reed, of the surgeon-general's department of the army, who discovered that the infection of yellow fever is carried by mosquito bite, died at Washington, November 23. Through the measures taken by the medical department of the army, during its occupation of Cuba, following the recommendation of Mr. Reed and others, yellow fever has been practically eliminated from the island.