19 Facts About Walter Wyman

Walter Wyman was an American physician and soldier.

Walter Wyman was appointed the third Surgeon General of the United States from 1891 until his death in 1911.

Walter Wyman was promoted to Surgeon the following year, and served successively in the marine hospitals at St Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and New York City.

Walter Wyman had studied in Europe in 1885, and was well acquainted with the bacteriological investigations of Robert Koch and others.

Walter Wyman fully supported the creation of the Hygienic Laboratory.

In December 1888, Walter Wyman moved to Washington, DC as Chief of the Quarantine Division.

When Hamilton resigned as Supervising Surgeon General, Walter Wyman was appointed to the position as of June 1,1891.

Walter Wyman was to remain at the helm of the Marine Hospital Service for 20 years.

At that time, Walter Wyman's title was changed from Supervising Surgeon General to just Surgeon General.

The 1902 law expanded the Hygienic Laboratory, which Walter Wyman had moved to Washington, DC, in 1891.

When Walter Wyman attempted to enforce an embargo on interstate travel for Californians without proper health certificates, the Governor of the state, Henry Gage, persuaded President McKinley to lift the travel ban.

The service under Walter Wyman cooperated with state and local health authorities in the control of other infectious diseases such as yellow fever.

Walter Wyman was involved in the creation of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau in 1902.

Walter Wyman played a leading role in the first four Inter-American Sanitary Conferences, acting as President of the first two and attending the next two as the United States Delegate.

Walter Wyman authorized a nationwide study of the prevalence of leprosy in 1901, and worked to establish a leprosy hospital and laboratory in Hawaii.

In 1905, Walter Wyman personally went to Hawaii to select the site of the new facility.

Walter Wyman was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars.

Walter Wyman was reported being to the north in Lake Worth in 1883.

Walter Wyman continued to serve as surgeon general until his death at Providence Hospital in Washington, DC, on November 21,1911.