Howard S. Anders

Physician; born in Norriton, Pa., November 12, 1866; son of Nathaniel H. Anders and Regina (Schultz) Anders. He attended Central High School, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated as A.B. in 1885, and A.M. in 1892; and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as M.D. in 1890, with honorable mention for thesis on the relation of street-width to the mortality of tuberculosis. He married in Philadelphia, December 27, 1893, Mabel G. Gilling. He was resident physician of the Presbyterian Hospital in Philadelphia, August 1, 1890, to August 1, 1891; instructor in clinical medicine at the Medico-Chirurgical College from 1893 to 1899: professor of physical diagnosis of the diseases of the chest and abdomen since 1890. For five years, physician to Samaritan Hospital, Philadelphia, and since 1905 physician to the Philadelphia General Hospital, Tuberculosis Department. He was school director of the Fifteenth Ward, and first Municipal League candidate for coroner, in 1899, but not elected. He is a Republican in politics, and a Baptist in his religious faith. Dr. Anders is author of a text-book on Physical Diagnosis, and about thirty monographs and pamphlets on medical topics and matters concerning public health, individual communion cup, tuberculosis, dust-borne diseases, influenza and weather phenomena, typhoid fever. He is a member of the American Medical Association, American Climatological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Geographic Society, the Pennsylvania Forestry Association ; ex-president and now vice-president and director of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis; director of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis: member of the university Lodge of Masons, chairman of the Committee of Management of the Young Men's Christian Association of Philadelphia, Alumni Medical Society, University of Pa.; Ptolemy Society, also a member of the Medico-Chirurgical College and Yachtmen's Clubs, the Neighborhood Club of Cynwyd. Pa., and the Sydenham Coterie (medical). Residence: Cynwyd, Pa. Office address: 1900 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, pp. 12-13.

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