He also 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. 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, Wyman personally went to Hawaii to select the site of the new facility. During his tenure as surgeon general, Wyman was active in professional service in a number of organizations. For example, he served as president of the American Public Health Association in 1902 and as president of the Association of Military Surgeons in 1904. Wyman was a member of the Society of Colonial Wars. Lake Wyman in Boca Raton, Florida was named for him. He was reported being to the north in Lake Worth in 1883. Wyman continued to serve as surgeon general until his death at Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C., on November 21, 1911. Commemoration The Public Health Service boarding tug USPHS Walter Wyman, in service from 1932 to 1957, was named for Wyman. References External links Distinguished Officers Biographical Sketch Men of Mark in America Biographical Sketch 1848 births 1911 deaths Amherst College alumni Surgeons General of the United States Washington University School of Medicine alumni Marine Hospital Service personnel Washington University in St. Louis alumni American public health doctors People from St. Louis 19th-century American physicians 20th-century American physicians