. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . de for the comfort and pleasure of the visitors, andare to be congratulated on their conduct of the convention. The San Fran-cisco session was a great success. The Convention closed with the election of Dr. Rupert Blue, head of theUnited States Public Health Service, as President of the Association for theyear following the incumbency of Dr. Rodman, inasmuch as it is the law of 22 TH
. The story of the exposition; being the official history of the international celebration held at San Francisco in 1915 to commemorate the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the construction of the Panama Canal . de for the comfort and pleasure of the visitors, andare to be congratulated on their conduct of the convention. The San Fran-cisco session was a great success. The Convention closed with the election of Dr. Rupert Blue, head of theUnited States Public Health Service, as President of the Association for theyear following the incumbency of Dr. Rodman, inasmuch as it is the law of 22 THE STORY OF THE EXPOSITION the organization to elect officers a year in advance. The other officers electedat this meeting were: First Vice-President, Dr. Albert Vanderveer, Albany,New York; Second Vice-President, Dr. George B. Evans, Dayton, Ohio;Third Vice-President, Dr. Donald Campbell, Butte, Montana; Fourth Vice-President, Dr. Herbert C. Moffitt, San Francisco; Secretary, Dr. AlexanderR. Craig, Chicago, Illinois; Treasurer, Dr. William Allen Pusey, Chicago,Illinois; Trustees, Dr. M. L. Harris, Chicago, Dr. W. T. Councilman,Boston, Dr. Thomas McDavitt, St. Paul. All the new trustees CHAPTER VIPLAGUE, LEPROSY, TYPHOID THE annexation of Porto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines after theSpanish war was accompanied by much dolorous and confidentprophecy of the invasion of this country by all the pathologicaltribulations of the Tropics. We were to have leprosy, elephantiasis, yellowfever, bubonic plague, and every known itis and emia we had theretoforelacked. To a slight degree the prophets were justified, but as to the measure ofour woes they failed to calculate our resistance; lost sight of the fact thatevery danger stimulates defensive effort. Within five years after the Span-ish war a group of physicians at Philadelphia had organized the AmericanSociety of Tropical Medicine, to encourage research into thecauses and spread of tropical disease, collect and re
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