The facts behind the military hospital
Walter Reed (1851-1902) was a remarkable researcher in the field of medicine and deserves to have his name memorialised in a fitting manner. As an army doctor he woeked with great alacrity in the relentless wars of extermination that the US military waged against the native first peoples of the North American continent. He worked in Cuba after the Spanish American war. He was the first to discover that Yellow Fever was caused by vectors and this discovery enabled the US troops to operate with adequate medical protection in the swamps of the Caribbean and Central America, especiallly in the Panama Canal Zone.
Walter Reed was a dedicated professional and his years of travel and stay in frontier garrisons ruined his health and he died in 1902 at the young age of 49.
The Hospital bearing his name was set up in 1909.