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ill 1892 for teinporaiy duty witli tliccoinniuiiity of Apache 

 Indians lield as prisoners at Mount Vernon Barracks, 

 Alabama, and for his sanitary work with tliese Indians 

 he was commended in tlie Annual Report of the Surgeon 

 (ieneral of the Army for that year. Owing to the high 

 death rate of these Indians from tuberculosis, he became 

 interested in their vital statistics ami published a paper 

 in the Boston Medical and Surgical .Journal entitled 

 "The Vital Statistics of an iVpache Indian ('ommunity'' 

 in wliieh their statistics for five years were compiled, * 

 and which is of interest as probably bein<;' the only 

 accurate vital statistics of an Indian comin unity ever 

 published. 



From New Orleans. Dr. Borden was transferred to 

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

 his present station, Fort Snellin<j, near St. Paul, Min- 

 nesota. 



Dr. Borden first began work in 3Iicrosco])y when at- 

 tending his first course of medical lectures. At that 

 time a tliroe years graded course of study and practical 

 work in histology and pathology were required but in 

 few of the medical colleges of the I'nited States ofwliich 

 the Columl>ian University was one, and as he became 

 interested in microscopical work, the traded course gave 

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

 available to the average medical student. After enter- 

 ing tlie Medical Department of the Army he continued 

 his microscopical work and soon began work in ])hoto- 

 micrography. 



lie is the author of a numbei' of monographs on sub- 

 H'cts connected with general and military medicine, 

 histology, microscopical NH'hni([ue, photomicrography, 

 •Mud photography, ;ind he is a member of the Associations 

 of Military Sui-geons of the United States, and a Fellow 

 of the Koy.'il .Microscopical Society of England. 



