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very remarkable character, as, for example, one on the con- 

 tagiousness of tuberculosis, published as far back as 1882, prior 

 to Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus as the factor of con- 

 tagion; and a second article, entitled "Danger of Errors in 

 Diagnosis between Chronic Syphilitic Fever and Tuberculosis." 

 Dr. Janeway was among the first American teachers who, after 

 Koch's discovery, taught the value of the bacteriological examina- 

 tion of sputum as an important diagnostic means. The inval- 

 uable help he gave to the New York Health Department, par- 

 ticularly to Dr. Biggs, in the latter's early struggles for municipal 

 control of tuberculosis, is a matter of record, and cannot be better 

 illustrated than by quoting what Dr. Biggs said in a letter to the 

 author of this biographical sketch in reference to it: 



" Dr. Janeway was always one of our strongest and most unswerving sup- 

 porters. Dr. Janeway and Dr. Prudden and Dr. Frank Foster were almost 

 the only men prominent in medicine twenty-five years ago in New York city 

 who actively supported the measures proposed and later adopted by the De- 

 partment of Health for the restriction and prevention of tuberculosis. The 

 first assurance of this effect came, I think, in 1887, when Dr. Bryant sent a 

 letter to a number of prominent physicians in New York asking for advice as 

 to the adoption of the recommendations which had been made to the board 

 by Dr. Prudden, Dr. Loomis, and myself. From that date onward Dr. Jane- 

 way's attitude never changed, and it was to him that I went more frequently, 

 in the early days of my connection with the Department of Health, for advice 

 and assistance, than to any other man in New York. Dr. Janeway, Dr. 

 Bryant, and Dr. Prudden were the three men who have never been found 

 wanting in support of any measures to improve the public health in New York 

 city." 



Dr. Janeway was an examining physician of the Adirondack 

 Cottage Sanatorium from 1895 to the time of his death, and he 

 had likewise been connected with the Loomis Sanatorium since 

 1900 as a member of the medical board. He was on the consult- 

 ing staff of the Sea Breeze Sanatorium for tuberculous joint dis- 

 eases (now the Neponsit Beach Hospital for Children) from the 

 very foundation of the institution, and he was also a member of 

 the advisory board of the Stony Wold Sanatorium for tubercu- 

 lous working girls and children. 



In 1901 Dr. Janeway was honorary vice-president of the British 

 Congress on Tuberculosis, and one of the official delegates for the 



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