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<p>The possibilities of careful epidemiological investigations are well illustrated in a malaria survey made by Walter Reed in 1896 at Washington Barracks and Fort Myer. A copy of this report in the files of the Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology furnished the material for this communication. Washington Barracks, now known as Fort Lesley J. McNair, is located in Washington, D. C., at the southern end of Fourth Street, Southwest. It lies on a point of land formerly known as Turkey Buzzard or Greenleaf's Point, between the Anacostia River and the Washington Channel of the Potomac. In 1896, a tract of poorly drained land lay between the post and the Anacostia, and the James Creek Canal, which was an open sewer flushed by the tides, formed the eastern boundary of the post. What is now Haines Point. across the Washington Channel to the west, was then a newly made peninsula, reclaimed from the Potomac flats and covered with " ... rank, vegetable growth." Fort Myer is on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, on a bluff overlooking the lowlands a long the river.<br><br>[Reprinted from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. XXIX, No. 4, July-Aug., 1955.]<br></p>
<br>Subjects: U.S. Army; malaria; Walter Reed; Fort McNair; Washington DC; Fort Myer; Army Medical Museum; mosquito; Fort Myer; Washington DC; epidemilogy</div>
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Hugh R. Gilmore Jr.</div>
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