Evening Star Newspaper, April 4, 1926, Page 69

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., APRIL 4, 1926—PART 5. — - Growth of Garfield Hospital Work Rambler Investigates the History Arouses Pride of Washingtonians| Of an Early Washington Gymnasium History of Inception of This Institution and Subsequent Expansion Great Devotion of Its Supporters. REAT tiently men of Garfield residen nly a by of W vears seneral ou sufferi by borne the pa great James had been United when bullet, ntion of and the need for in the e need, pre impressive @ fashion ‘resident ( taken N.J weeks after ot from wital lack- te hospital ilities, has wzency for alleviation of that today one of neme } als of the Nation woughly modern edical practice Washingto Washington morial Hos nam roa one of his tir who e A town n assassin's the att shing 20, the hospital m mills nds hospital in t pment 1 and most citizens of me “Garfield M institution. with be 1o those ¢ hi ming < behind searc the cause. i titution, which stands on the new Ceniral oce ne Sherman b Kk a = of hich s suf Jam, 1 Mac 1ssassin’s his term 1 a bed of hospital removed died s name his suf- le hegirn old Sn .+ proper 1 now development eral b sary old sane deaf 1. but ngress for rd dumb and a not until the for use acted refit in efi ne pletion Tyler all members o appoir e phy ians Jlumbian College, But harge Cor money stood doctors, bt izfng the situat he ital under Columbian Cc v dical school operate. For NPT ers for a yea here were ress ed ianagzement hich moveg it nd s hospital d was 1o constant isin because than Colum ind. with the | pub- | bject £ sche P Lian College were he ¥ heleaguered ! b ind pri t to the I'he old jail ing the without =« a1 s was hspit these e in | wain zeneral except to i was not <p here Zo tel or home nursing ind was the two dec 186 fe from it i os s that charitable As the num iployes in of Cong increasing the sick should o vermment the 1sed, member themselves called A th were were in nd employes for wher medical they « th Dr. Franeis veal father of ovement, his in the projec dating back to 7 when he hold of the older proposition of 1. W. Ritchie and C. H. A. schmidt, and held numerous meeting with the medical that day te e i organization. Armed with | need of A the interest the Hospital Ashford Garfield took Drs Klei | ture something to work with. DR. DEANE C. HOWARD. SUPERINTENDENT OF GARFIELD HOSPITAL. 1 petition from citizens, Dr vresented a project for a gener pital to the municipal authorities, but it lagged until the assassination o President’ Garfield, when The Even Star printed a communication ir from Lewis J. Davis, urging erection, in memory of President Gar- field, of a hospital at the station of he Pennsylvania_ Railroad where he was shot. This pject was aided by a letter nons seeking the These men worked together public meeting of citizens was " Lincoln Hall. October 5, 1881 Garfield Memorial Hospital was horn. Two Hebrew congrega tions in the city made the first con tributions, totaling $73 * % 1 hos 881 and held N executive committee of »pointed at the Lincoln and proceeded to funds. The ind Sailors’ Orphans’ Home G reet was acquired, an $39.708.0: cient nucle the founders of the new ven 25 was Hall aise th National THE MODERN OPERATING ROOM OF € Garfleld Hospital as it stands today They bought the Snyder farm, then outside the old boundaries of the city, up in a s n which had seen litte development, but on a high hill over looking the entire city, from whose wooded slopes the silver sheet of the river could be seen far below Alex andria, sloping up to the highlands to the north, where Maryland met the confines of the Federal City So anxious were the women who formed the Ladies’ Aid Association to get the new hospital functios that they made sheets themselves and titted out five rooms in the old Snyder farmhouse, providing all the equip ment themselves, Their first patient, aken in in 1882, was a full-blooded joux Indian, a member of Buffalo Bill's shows, then in Washington, who was brought to tha farm-hospital suffering from pneumonia. The fir: patient Garfield Hospital had died for the Indian brave succumbed to the disease a few days after being removed there. In 1882 also cume the first amputation, that of the leg of an_ex-soldier, made necessary by gun RFIELD HOSPITAL. of Service Reveals gress 1o enable the hospital to | take over the “Nutional Soldiers’ and | Sailors’ Orphans’ Home" and writings | of the time chromicle that “Parm-| mount” Blount, an opponent of the new preject in the House, frequently | alluded to the new hospital as un-| necessary, since there were sectavian | institutions to take care of the sick. His protests were of no avail, nor were representations that efforts to stablish Garfield Memorial Hospital were inimical to Providence Hogpital, for Cong in August, 1882, per- mitted acquisition of the Soldiers’ and ilors’ Home property. Soon after | e record of the deed of transfer, the incorporators ook posse: the real estate and held the “Wirt House where a plan of organizat down and provision made for of directors On January 12 a hoard 1884, the nnual meeting of the Ladies’ Aid anthorized it to borrow $20,000 to be used for construction of a “Ladies’ Aid Build- ing.” A lien on the property wa allowed by the men’s hoard as security for the loan. All payments were met and the obligation liguidated in a dec ade The first was organized of the present for trained nurses in 1889, the heginning large school, with a two-vear course. The records of the | Ladies’ Aid Association point out that the school had difficulty in beginning because of the antipathy of the med ical staff toward female nurses Only a year later women triumphed, for in that ¥ great typhoid epidemic came upon | Washington. Garfield, as well as the | other hospitals of the city, was full of patients with typhoid. The devotion of the female nurses and their skiil completely won over the recalcitrant | men and they established themselves as ranking with physicians as aids to the sick During pital ws Ladies school however. 1l the time the young hos s getting on its feet the Aid, prompted by sentiments of mercy, was giving its utmost en- couragement and practical aid. The women raised money in various ways. The records show that Mrs. John A Logan lectured on o trip to Europe in 1896 and raised $343, while matinee benefit performances were given A grand fete Gen. Logan's £2,059, while ments hrou other bazaars One ot th raising mon | and bazaar given at | house in 1886 netted | lunches and entertain- | various sums and money tacular wans of v. brought forwurd by the Ladies’ Aid, which also served the practical purpose of advertisin was W tea party given on May 1882, 1 when enthusiasm was at its height, in e rotunda of the Capitol Building h netted $4 1 This is the first d last time the Capitol rotunda has 1 used for ial purpose. wives of Presidents have of the board of di- Zenjamin son., such a s hree beer v | | the proposals made at the time of the founding was that each State should | contribute $10,000 and should have & | ward named after it. This plan also provided that the Ladies’ Afd Society should have a vice president from each State and Territory. This finally abandoned as too complic Six Washington physicians of the Drs. William G. Palmer, Toner, Smith Townshend, F Ashford, J. Kord Thompson and | Samuel €. Busey, were, with the| other members of the executive com mittee of made incorporators of the institution, and held their fi neeting on June 6, 188 Garnett, father of the physician that name practicing today place of Dr. Ashford, who died 11 | 1884 medical laymen the pirited time. while and public-s co-overating, the city joined in the movement. With customary energy they organ- ized 2 Ladies’ Aid Association in 1881 and promptly s the men in getting the new project! under way | In 1882 the men’s committee took | the first step in the formation of e were | One of | shot | War. women of the | the tablets { ments of bronze o wounds received in the Civil The Medical Society of the District of Columbia as an_organization and members as individuals all gave| unstintingly of their time and| energies to the founding of the much needed hospital all this time. On Wed- nesday, May 10, 1882, the society passed a resolution, sayving “that no| more appropriate method of honoring | the memory of our late brutally mur- | dered President, can I cived of than the erection of 2 monu- ment: an ever active itution for the relief of humanity, suffering in| 5o many various forms! o source for the acquirement and development of is Dr. A, Y. F | knowledge in those branches of scien- of | tifie ook the | immediate most n relief ¢ irly directed to the many: and an everlasting and inexhaustible well spring of charity and benevolence, which in the minds of all men of right feeling must be esteemed far above of brass or mere monu- marble. A few weeks later 85 physicians of the city joined in a memorial brought ud vung their aid in with | to the attention of the city heads urg- ing aid and encouragement for the hospital to insure its ablishment and permangnce, Legislation was needed by Con- Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Mrs. War- rén G. Harding. Since 1890 the great hospital, reared in the face oi adversity and financial | struggle, fought i1 the halls of Con- gress and laughed at as impossible, has progressed stcadil The present hospital tract was bought in two tracts, the original Snyder farm purchase costing $49,500. Another tract was purchased in 1903 | for £30,000. Today the hospital build- | ings and grounds represent an outlay of nearly $1,750,000. “It has a total bed capacity of 330, of which about 175 are in private rooms, many with private baths, tele- | phones and other up-to-date appoint- ments of the modern hospital room. | It has a modern nurses' school. from | which graduate received :viiplnm?h last year, nurses | (JARFIELD, carrying an added bur- { %% den with Washingtor large population during the war, incurred a deficit during that period, but today is self-supporting. even though it re. ceives only $10,000 from Congress for its work of mercy, used solely for care of contagious s through the Board of Charities. It receives money from three small bequests aggregating about $1,500, and another small in- come for a specific purpose from an- other bequest. Garfleld last year did charity work whose value is estimated between $60,000 and $80,000. Like most hospi- tals, it requires payment if the pa- tient is able to pay, but, also, like most others, will do charity ‘work when required. Needy charity cases are examined by the Associated Chari- ties, and reports made to the hospital authorities. Seven thousand one hundred and seventy-nine patients were handled during 1925 by Garfield Memorial Hos- pital, about 500 more than during the | year’ previous. Although not regard- | ed primarily as a maternity hospital, 506 Washingtonians first saw the light of day in Garfield Hospital last year, while 3,757 surgical operations were performed, of which 819 were classed as major operatigns. The hospital has @ nurses’ staff niimbering 110 persons, headed by a most kindly and compe: tent woman_who has looked upon and administered to suffering humans for many years—Miss Alice E. McWhor- ter, superintendent of nurses. Within the past two vears the fa- cilities at Garfield have been very much amplified under an enlargement program instituted in 1923. A new nurses' home, a fireproof structure of three stories, with 110 rooms, new din tng rooms and kitchens, has been con [3 | Me [ wears a | day [ added | the Brady’s Athletes Evidently Occupied a Place of Some Importance in Activities of Their MNASIUM ATHLETES B. NOLAN, EDWARD DROOP. GEORGE W. EVANS AND LUCIAN HE athletes of Brady's Gymna sium_in the picture, from left to right, are Frank Saxton John Pugh, Wil Colgate Thomas Nolan, Edward Droop. W ns and Lucian D Alden. The sitting man 1s Abner S Brady. called Prof. Brady by Wash ingtonians 61 to 56 years ago. One e on the photograph is that the vounz men named were “athletes of Brady's Gymnasium 1864, 1865 and 1566 Another note on the picture is “Brady's Gymnasium Athletes 186 1870, Brady’s Gymnasium is recorded in Boyd's Washington Directory of 1865 Nos. 82, 84 and 86 Louisiana avenue, and Abner S. Brady is entered in the directory boarding the opolitan Hotel. The Ramblerasked his friend Dr. William Tindall of the bureau of information, District Build ing. to what numbers Gf our present street-number system the numbers 82 84.86 Louisiana avenue would corre. spond, and he answered Nos. 924, 926 and 928, and he said that B Gymnasium was on the top floor of three two-story buildings on the south side of Louisiana avenue just east of the Central Guard House The Rambler has not found anybody to give him many facts about Pre Brady. Bill, our elevator man, who rose on his coat lapel every (but not the same rose) and who knew. many great and not-great men in Washington 56-60 years ago, told me that he “knew of” Prof. Brady and that he was quite a man in the opin ion of the young fellows. You see by George s at nurses built new central power constructed at a tion building for outlay of $23,000 and heating plant cost of §35,000, and the entire admin- tration building, now known as the ntral building, reconstructed at a cost of about §155,000. This work 52 private rooms to the hospital facilities, for the second, third, fourth and fifth floors, where the nurses for merly lived, have been made over into private rooms. Officers of the hos- pital are: Henr: Spencer, presi dent; W. §. Corby, first vice president; Maj. Gen. William M. Wright, second e president: Miss Aline E. Solo- mons, secretary. In addition to the officers the following are members of board of directors: Clarence A. Aspinwall, Dr. J. C. Boyd, G. Thomas Dunlop, Morris Hacker, Gen. Merritte W. Irelapd, Surgeon General of the Army: Newbold Noyes, Mrs. Richard Wainwright; Henry K. Willard, Mrs. Clarence ¢ Willlams, Mrs. Simon Wolf and H. Rozier Dulany, jr. The Ladies' Ald Association is com- posed a President, Mrs. Clarence C. Williams; first vice pres- ident, Mrs, Mary Logan Tucker: sec- at an ond vice president, Mrs. P. M. RixeY{ greater than shown in - the third vice president, Mrs. Henry K. Willard; fourth vice president, Mr W. §. Corby; fifth vice president, Mr; Richard Wainwright; honorary vice presidents, Mrs. B. B. Grandin, Mrs. Frank Hume and Mrs. Joseph E. Thropp; secretary, Mrs. James T. ewton: treasurer, Mrs. Louise Cham- bers. The following are members of the women's board: Mrs. Robert Beale, Mrs. J. B. Bogan, Miss Selma Bo chardt, Mrs. J. C. Boyd, Mrs. Clarence | . K. Butler, Mrs. Ralph §. Carmalt, Mrs. Chamberlin, Mrs. Williath Barle ‘lark, Mrs. H. R. Dulany, jr.. Mrs. S. B. Elkins, Mrs. H. D. Flood, Mrs. Homer D. Fuller, Mrs. A. Y. P. Gar- nett, Mrs. Morris Hacker, Mrs. Francis Hagner, Mrs. E. G. Hern- don, Mrs, R. L. Hoxie, Mrs, Fred F. Johnson, Dr. Kate Karpeles Mrs, H. W. Kearney, Mrs. Sidney Kent, Mrs. J. W. Lindsay, Mrs. Louis Mackall, Miss Rachel M W. Gerry Morgan, Mrs. W. O. Owen, Mrs. John W. Reynolds, Mrs. E. Quincy Smith, Mrs. Arthur Snyder, Miss Aline E. Solomons, Mrs. A. L. Stavely, Mrs. Alexander Stewart, Mr: H. F. Strine, Mrs. George B. Welch, Mrs. Walter Wells, Mrs. Clarence Wilson and Mrs. Simon Wolf. Mrs. John A. Logan, whose daugh- ter is one of the officers of the associ- ation, was one of the most active of the founders of the hospital, working with the professional and lay com- mittees In its early days. : The present superintendent is Dr. Deane C. Howard, a retired Army offi- cer, who left the Army with the rank of colonel. Dr. Howard succeeded James R. Mays as superintendent on June 1, 1924. The superintendent has many memories of Garfield in earlier days, for he was a_member of the medical staff of the hospital 35 years ago, ington. Since that time Dr. Howard has traveled all over the world as an Army Spanish War and the war with Ger many. sch, Mr H. Cameron, Mrs. idys | nard, Mrs. | its | Time in the N OF 1864-1866. old friend Bill likes ac Bill were like most men he would not have said simply I knew of him.” He would have said this: “Why! Prof. Brady Of course, 1 knew him well. We went | to school’ together in the sixth ward |and ran with the same volunteer fire |engine in the fi ward! Prof Brady and I used to go every night to the Canterbury Theater, on Louisiana avenue ne xth, and after the show we would roll a little in La Truitt's Canterbury Bowling Saloon. Then would go 1o Gautier's resta i on the Avenue between Twelfth and Thirteenth, and a little and drink u great deal.” Most of our elderly and respectable cits were “intimately acquainted” with every storekeeper, claim agent, zovernment contractor boarding-house keeper and Republican office holder in Washing to 1870 Once. 1 invented the name Darn Lyor, and I said to an old Washingto. | nian, I reckon you remember old Darn Lyor who used to hang around the bar of the Exchange Ho Ben Beve- ridge’s Washington House and Bun Bryan's saloon in the ‘60's?” And the {old man answered: “Welll well! I haven't thought of him 1o these many yvears! He was on my sister Jemima and used to come to our house, on the Island. every Sunday for dinner. We were great friends. But old Darny, as we used to call him has been dead these many vears!” Perhaps a thought -like this comes to you when you read of old men who were intimate with Lincoln. Nearly every old Yank one reads of was | personal friend” of Abraham Lincolr this . that cur my If of his years for sweet | structed at a cost of $205,000: a recrea- | Lincoln invited him to supper at the | White House, asked his counsel on the | war and sent for him when & momen | tous campaign was planning Nearly every old Reb I hear of was a dis- | patch bearer for Stonewall Jackson or |an aide of some kind to Robert I Lee. The point I am trying to put |across is that Our Bill, when asked about Prof. Brady, said no more than that he “knew of him.” And there is no doubt about that. ok ok ok FIND Brady's Gymnasium in Boyd's Washington Directory for the vears 1865-1869. but not in the direc- tory of 1870. Believing that by get- |ting the date of Abner Brady's death |1 could find a sketch of him in The | Star, I went to the Health Office and through the “Index to Register of Deaths”. from 1874 to 1900 and through_the record of interments from 1870 to August, 1874. I saw no reference to Abner S. Brady. My in- ference is that he closed his gym- nasium early in 1870 and left Wash- ington. There must be some old- timer who can tell the Rambler and ramble readers about Prof. Brady, and the number of his athletes must be photo- graph. With the names of the seven ath- letes hefore him, the Rambler took up the directory of 1865. The name Frank Saxton is not there, but_you may read “Clay Saxton, clerk, War Department, boards 602 New Jerse avenue: Henry Saxton. clerk, depart- ment (%), rooms 359 Eighteenth west; Joseph Saxton, house, 602 New Jersey avenue.” John Pugh is not in the 1865 directory, but there are D. H. Pugh, clerk, paymaster general’s of- fice, house 417 Pennsylvania avenue; Hugh Pugh, merchant tailor, shop and house 474 Fourteenth west: Joseph C. Pugh, clerk, War Department, boards 134 F north. and Thomas Pugh, cler] second auditor’s office, no house ad- dress. Thomas B. Nolan is not in the 1865 directory, but there are several Nolans—Bridget, keeping a variety store on H near Twentieth west; James, a carpenter, at the same ad- dress; Richard, a baker, at 46213 Tent! west, and Samuel S. Nolan, 215 F { north. Edward Droop is in the direc- tory of that year as a clerk, boarding at 285 B north (between 14th and 15th). George W. Evans is in the 1865 direc- tory as “messenger, Interior Depart- ment.” His home address is not given. There are 43 Evanses in the 1865 directo Lucian D. Alden is not in that directory, but there are four Aldens—Albert G. Alden, clerk, Navy Department; Capt. A. 8. Alden, inspector general’s office: John T. Alden, clerk, \quartermaster’s office, and William Alden, policeman. Wil liam P. Colgate of Bfady’s Gymnasium | may be in the 1865 directory, for I | find the entry “Wm. Colgate, clerk, | Treasury, boards 441 ¥ st. north.’ James Colgate is at the same address. | Turning to Boyd's Washington Di- rectory for 1870, I find that Frank Saxton is not named, but there are ! quartermaster general's office; Joseph Saxton, Coast Survey; Maggie E. Sax- physician, serving in both the | ton, teacher, boards I near Thirteenth | zontal bar and southeast; 8. W. Saxton, clerk, first | comptroller's office, Mount Pleasant; n from 1860 | ational Capital. and W sury. J Willi comptroll lard hn Pugh probably ards Saxton rez of Brady's Gymnasium john O . clerk Thirteenth Py William Thomas adjutant northwest.” in the dire Eleventh st ence that Washington Northern clerk in the War Edward ward F northwest 1 o. liv the san P. Colgate is not < entered < office Twelve other ) but i Thomas B Nolan, but tate on beng Dey Droop is Droop (Metzer George W tered as “clerk. Interior 807 Eighth northwest." widow of Benjamin Evs |at that addr The | does not Benjamin lists B. F. Evans, messenger partment, Tenth west near Lucian D. Alden is in t tory as “clerk. Treas * ¥ * TTWO of the Bra ture are Department Mary was v director Evans, War 565 g v athletes in the remembered by a number of our people—Edward Droop and George W W. Evans ha I find by and file that he died April 22 his home, 918 Ni strest north west. In The Star, April 23, 1 it is written that he was born in Wash ington in 1851, “and began to earn | his own living at the age of 13, after having received his education in the public schools of this city.” It is also written: “Before the Civil War hegan d The Star quote part of three vears e followed of the Potomae as an official newsboy to the ew York Excelsior Brigade. During that time he fre | quently assisted in removing wounded men from the battlefield to places of safety. President Lincoln manifested an interest in the vouth and invited him to the White House. When his | father died it became necessary for young Evans to aid in supporting the | family and Lincoln appointed him a messenger in the Interior Department. Thus began his period of Government | service, in which he rose to the pos | tion of chief disbursing officer of the department. During his long period of service In the latter position Capt. ans handled $600,000,000 without the loss of a penny Reading the news of his death, 1 find that George Evans enlisted in one of the District volunteer regiments formed when Jubal Early was moving on Washington after beating Lew Wallace at the Monocacy; that he served in the Washington Light Infan- try from 1875 to 1880; was one of the organizers of the National Rifles: was commissioned in the District National Guard in 1895 and retired from his office in the Department of the In | terfor in 1923. He was buried at Oak { Hill with Masonic rites April 24, 1025. You remember—and of course you do not remember—that a year or two agc the Rambler wrote a series on old bu iness firms of Washington. One of | the rambles was about the house of | Droop, and turning to that story, print- ed in December, 1924, T extract this: “A young man came to Washington {late in the Summer of 1857. He was Edward F. Droop. He was 20 years | old and had landed at Baltimore a few months before. having come from Ger- many. where he was born in the town | of Osnabrueck, January 4, 1837. | first job at Baltimore was with tobacconist. Later he found emplo: ment with the Wilkins Hair and Bristle Co., and after learning a good deal about hair and bristles he went on the road for his firm. He came to ‘Washington. Here he had an uncl Conrad Finkman. who kept a restau- rant and hotel at 253 (old number) Pennsylvania avenue. Looking for a chance to conquer a part of the New World, he met William Gustave Metze- rott, who kept the music store at the Evans. George not been dead a year turning to The Star's index The .Star’s the Arn a leventh street, and became an em- ploye of Mr. Metzerott. Mr. Metzerott had come to the United States in 1849 from his home in Heilburghaus- sen, Duchy of Meinwen, and after working in New York for several years Ie settled in Washington in 1855, buying the music store which “had been run for a good many years ! by Hilbus & Hitz at 327 (old number) { D street. First of the Washington | directories giving the name Edward | Droop was that of 1860 and Mr. Droop | was recorded as ‘clerk at the corner when stationed in Wash- | these Saxtons: H. D. Saxton, clerk, !nf Avenue and Eleventh street’ and | ‘boards 287 E street.’ He was an ath- lete with dumbbells, clubs and the hort bowling and he joined Brady's Gymnasium. Te was also a singer and jolned the Washi Evans, | His | southwest corner of the Avenue and | T TO RIGHT. STANDING: FRANK SAXTON. JOHN PUGH. WILLIAM P. COLGATE. THOMA~ D. ALDEN. SEATED: PROF. ABNER S. BRADY. n ¢ the Arion Qua Befors several hoping of Brady's was vair tisemer copie Gyinr hopin: interested me, b The two Most ur We Pos n Gre prine ors Company oughts of Here v Rumble essing v of Grover's The s impress. Tl mible R embellished occupie ing durinz vil War Fhose da land came < homes did not have the It was our special priv leony wheneve there that ov rand review Mi par time the futher the uppe nd for the b this res billiard room ilege to occupy the we wished nd it w family witr the 1865. A I time 5, but i | vivid. T was in my ninth year and | can heur the great events map pening then, especially the tion of Lincoln I remain very MARG 1ssassina respectfully ARET MAY t Northwest P dvertisement « Brady's 1 found in The | this advertisement, October of the theater which heca Comique. then Kernan's Lyceum and now the President Fenno and Maginiey's Washingtor | Theater. Eleventh Street near Pennsy vania Avenue. Mr. and Mre. J. W Florence. Handy Andy and the Youns | Actress.” 1 also car | item: “The race at Bladensburg Tues day. October 10 (183), hetween the roun mare Prince George, owned by . teele, and the sorrel mave Josephine owned by E. Goodman. for $600, dis tance. 500 yards, time 27 seconds, was won by the sorrel mare Josephine by half a length in fine style.” Near that item was an advertise ment which 1 copy for the ladies. The Rambler desires nothing else o much as to please the ladies: “Win the |ladies” would be a just phrase, but | jealous husbands would want to fight Here it is “Mrs. A. M In th e upon horse ract a Knott respectfully an nounces to the ladies of Washington {and other vicinitles that she has re turned home with the Fall Fashions Artistic dressmaking in all its varfe ties, cut to fit the form with unerr ing accuracy and symmetrical pro portions. | Serum for Measles. HE blood serum of adults who ha es in childhood may be usad the disease in children a mild form de cts, and yei e just as the e does. of Prof. R H meas | to modify | that it will take only void of serious after eff will give immunity for 1i { normal form of the dis i This is the conclusion | Debre and Dr. Joannon of the Uni | versity of ¥ Medical School, re | ported to the health committee of the i League of Nations. More than & | thousand injections serum _have Dbeen given without any bad effects | The efforts of Dr. Leon Bernard, of { the University of Paris resulted in the blishment of two prophylactic sta is for the treatment of the of “Up to the present time.” Dr. Ber { nard said, “prophylactic methods have been used to some extent in the United States and any to secure temy 'y immunity. A serum from con | valescent cases was used and injected in patients during the first six days iafter infection. “But a durable immunity may be de i veloped if the serum is not injected {until the germs have had more time to incubate, as in the modified proced {ure of Prof. Debre, where the injec tions are made only between the sixth and the tenth day after infection. A serum shortage problem was solved by the discovery that the serum of adults who have long since recovered from measles was as efficlent as that taken from cénvalescent children™