GEORGE M. KOBER, M.D., LL.D. 361 



geon, United States Army, and was post surgeon at Alcatraz 

 Island, Cal., from July to November, 1874; post surgeon at Fort 

 McDermit, Nev., from November, 1874, to July, 1877. In the 

 fall of 1875 he served with the First United States Cavalry in 

 the Southeastern Nevada expedition against hostile Indians, and 

 in 1877 he served in the Nez-Perces War, and was in charge of 

 the field hospital at Kamiah on the Clearwater, Idaho, from July 

 to October, 1877. He was post surgeon at a camp near Spokane 

 Falls, Wash., and at Fort Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to November, 

 1879; Fort Klamath, Oregon, to June, 1880; and post surgeon 

 at Fort Bidwell, Cal., to November, 1886. While in this station 

 he was engaged in a large practice among the civilians, and 

 continued there, after severing his connection with the army until 

 June, 1887, when he traveled extensively in America and Europe, 

 returning to Fort Bidwell the following year. 



In the fall of 1888 Dr. Kober returned to Washington, D. C., 

 with a view to devoting his time to college, hospital, and literary 

 work. In 1889 he was appointed professor of hygiene and state 

 medicine in Georgetown Medical School. During the winter of 

 1889-90 he directed attention to the sewage pollution of the 

 Potomac River water, as an important factor in the undue preva- 

 lence of typhoid fever in Washington. In August, 1890, he was a 

 member of the Tenth International Medical Congress, held in 

 Berlin, and there read a paper on the Etiology of Typhoid Fever, 

 with special reference to water-borne epidemics, and was ap- 

 pointed honorary secretary of the section of medical geography, 

 history, etc. In December, 1890, his California investments 

 necessitated his return to Bidwell, where he engaged in the 

 practice of his profession, and for a year or more was again 

 attending surgeon at the post. 



In the fall of 1893 Dr. Kober returned to Washington, resumed 

 his professional work at the Georgetown Medical School, and be- 

 came deeply engaged in the health and housing problems of the 

 city and its social and industrial betterment. In 1895, at the 

 request of the Health Officer, he investigated the causes of 

 typhoid fever in Washington, and in his report pointed out for 

 the first time the agency of flies in the transmission of the disease. 

 His public addresses on the relation of water-supply and sewers 



