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in 1892 for temporary duty with tlie community of Apache 

 Indians held as prisoners at Mount Vernon Burracks, 

 Alabama, and for his sanitary work with these Indians 

 lie was commended in the Annual Report of the Surgeon 

 Ueneral of the Army for that year. Owing to the high 

 death rate of these Indians from tuberculosis, he became 

 interested in their vital statistics and published a paper 

 in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal entitled 

 "The Vital Statistics of an Apache Indian Community" 

 in which their statistics for five years were compiled, 

 and which is of interest as probably being the only 

 accurate vital statistics of an Indian community ever 

 2>ublislied. 



From New Orleans, Dr. Borden was transferred to 

 Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island, and from there to 

 his present station, Fort Snelling, near St. Paul, Min- 

 nesota. 



Dr. Borden first liegan work in Microscopy when at- 

 tending his first course of medical lectures. At that 

 time a three years graded course of study and practical 

 work in histology and patholog^^ were required but in 

 few of the medical colleges of the United States of which 

 the Columbian University was one, and as he became 

 interested in microscopical work, the graded course gave 

 him more time to follow his studies in that line than was 

 available to the average medical student. After enter- 

 ing the Medical Department of the Army he continued 

 his microscopical work and soon began work in photo- 

 micrography. 



He is the author of a number of monograi)hs on sub- 

 jects connected with general and military medicine, 

 histology, microscopical <^echnique, photomicrography, 

 and photography, and he is a member of the Associations 

 of Military Surgeons of the United States, and a Fellow 

 of the Royal Microscopical Society of England. 



