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WALTER REED CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL by Paul H. Til! On February 28,1929 the Seventieth Congress of the United States of America passed an act , Chapter ~81 of the Statues at Large, which crea- ted the Walter Reed Congressional Medal some 28 years after the services were rendered. The medal the act authorized is a congressional medal , which is not to be confused with the Medal of Honor given by the Armed Forces for valor in combat. This congressional medal was awarded to 22 recipients in the early 1930’s~ it was not a continuing award. In July ,1956 President Eisenhow- er signed into law an act of Congress whereby this medal was awarded to Gustaf E. Lambert, who with Dr. Roger Post A~nes had been left out of the 1929 Act. Dr. Ames, however, was not added to the list of recipients. See " The Conquest of Yellow Fever ", The Medal Collector, January 1957, page 7.

The services for which this medal was given was the series of tests carried out under the direction of Major Walter Reed, M.D.~ U.S. Army Medical Corps into the cause(s) of, transmission of, and prevention of yellow fever. These experiments were undertaken after the Spanish-Ameri- can War in Cuba in 1900 and 1901o The Walter Reed commission determined by its test that yellow fever was not transmitted by contact with those pers’~ns and their clothlng, etc. who had contracted the disease, but was spread by a type of mosquito. As a result of these findings the United States was able to construct the Panama Canal without the prohibitive cost of workmen’s’llves from yellow fever, a factor which had resulted in the failure of earlier attempts to build such a canal, by destroying the mosquitoes that bore the disease. Thus, the work of Major Reed and his associates was not only of long range benefit and importance to man- kind in ending one of the scourages, but also was of immediate benefit to the United States in establishing itself as a major world power, it should be noted that Major Reed did not live to see m~uuy of the fruits of his work as he died of appendicitis on November 22,1902 in Washing- ton, D.C. The men listed in the 1929 and 1956 acts of Congress directed or took ~art in the e~-periments. Most of the men were subjects or human guinea pigs who, among other things~, lived in the clothing and slept in the beds of victims who had died of yellow fever, were put near towels stained with the blood of such victims, and were bitten by the mosqui- toes known or suspected of carrying the disease. It can be seen that these men had a great deal of fortitude and courage in facing a disease that Was often fatal and of unknown cause. The medal provided for by Congress is a 63 mm diameter circular ta- ble medal of gold. This writer recently came across what might be des- cribed as a wearin~ minature of this Congressional medal, paralleling con’t Page 33 RIBBON

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UNITED STATES UNITED STATES O1, Red White & Blue ribbon 284. Civil War (2nd ribbon) 02. Bailey Medal 285. Indian War (2nd ribbon) 03. Specially Meritorious Medal 286. Dewey Medal 258, Distinguished Service Cross 287. West Indies Naval Campaign (Army) 288. Spanish Campaign (2nd ribbon) 260, Navy Cross 289. Philippine Campaign (Is~ rib- 261. Distinguished Service Medal ben) (Army) 289. Philippine Campaign (2nd rib- 262, Distinguished Service Medal bon) (Navy) 290, Chino Relief Expedition (2nd 263. Silver S~ar ribbon) 264. Legion of Merit 291. Spanish War Service 265. Distinguished Flying Cross 292. Philippine Congressional Medal 266. Soldiers Medal 293. Army of Cuban 0ecupation 267. Navy & Marine Corps Medal 294. Army of Puerto Rican Occupation 268, Bronze Star 295. Cuban Pacification Medal 04. Air Force Co~nendation 296, Nicaraguan Campaign A269. Navy Commendation 297. B269, Coast Guard Commendation 298. Mexican Border Service Medal 270, Army Commendation 299. 271. Air Medal 300. Santo Domingo Campaign 272. Purple Heart 112. Victor~ Medal WW I 273. Medal for Merit 301. 2nd Nicaraguan Campaign 05. Medal for Freedom 302. N.C. & Medal 276. Gold Life Saving Medal 07. Peary Polar Expedition Medal (2rid ribbon) 303. Byrd Antarctic Expedition 304. 2nd Byrd Antarctic Expedition 277, Silver Life Saving Medal (2nd ribbon) 305. U.S, Antarctic Expedition 278. Army Good Cenduc~ 1939-41 306, Yangtse Service 279, Navy Good Conduct 280. Marine Corps Good Conduct 307. China Service 308. 281. Coast Guard Good Conduct (2nd ribbon) 309. Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal 282. Naval Reserve Medal 310. Army of Occupation WW I (]st 283. Marine Corps Reserve Medal 06. Naval Reserve Special Com- ribbon) 310. Army of Occupation WW I (2nd mendation ribbon ribbon)