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Oct 3, 2018 · October 3, 2018. Standing water and unpaved roads in Colon, Panama,1905 (Linda Hall Library) William Crawford Gorgas, an American Army physician, was born Oct. 3, 1854. Gorgas was chief sanitary officer in Havana when the Army sent in a commission to investigate the cause and prevention of yellow fever.
Nov 13, 2019 · Major William Gorgas, the chief sanitary officer of Havana, admitted that after the preliminary experiments, he was skeptical of the mosquito theory, but the experiments at Camp Lazear convinced him otherwise. In December 1900, as the results at Camp Lazear began to be known, Gorgas wrote to Henry Rose Carter:
Description. Biography from the Dedication of the Gorgas Steam Plant that occurred on September 16, 1944 at Gorgas, Alabama. "William Crawford Gorgas was born October 3, 1854, near Mobile, Alabama, the son of General Josiah Gorgas and Amelia Gayle Gorgas. Failing to secure an appointment to West Point, he decided to enter the Army as a doctor.
William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854 – July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry them at a time when there was considerable skepticism and opposition ...
Mar 1, 2024 · WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS (October 3, 1854-July 3, 1920), Surgeon General, January 16, 1914-October 3, 1918, was the son of General Josiah Gorgas, a native of Pennsylvania who graduated from the United States Military Academy in the class of 1841. Assigned to the ordnance service, he was in command of Mount Vernon Arsenal, near Mobile, Alabama ...
Mar 21, 2024 · Dr. William Crawford Gorgas was born October 3, 1854 in Toulminville, AL. He served in the US Army (1880–1918) as a physician and the 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). Dr. Gorgas was assigned to Fort Brown in 1882 at the height of a yellow fever (also known as "yellow jack") epidemic, in Brownsville and Matamoros.
Apr 21, 2020 · William Gorgas was born on 3 rd October 1854 in Alabama. He was born to a United States Army Ordinance Officer living in Charleston, South Carolina. William C. Gorgas was a renowned U.S. Army physician who also wa s the 22 nd U.S. Army Surgeon General (1914 – 1918). In his formative years before the Panama Canal project, Gorgas was revered ...
