[161-65b] DR. HOWARD SCHULTZ, ANDERS, same as above, m 2nd time, Mar. 12, 1912, MAUD HOWLAND, } Dec. 9, 1870; dau Henry Howland of Ottawa, Ill. Nozssue. Physician; City Line and Belmont Ave., Phila. (1922.)
Howard S. Anders was born in Norriton Twp., Montg. Co., Pa. He attended Central High School, Phila., Pa., from which he was graduated as A. B. in 1885 and A. M. in 1892; he 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. Dr. Anders was resident physician of the Presbyterian Hospital in Phila., Aug. 1, 1890 to Aug. 1, 1891; instructor in clinical medicine at the Medico-Chirurgical College from 1893-1899; also professor of physical diagnosis of the diseases of the chest and abdomen. For five years he was physician to the Samaritan Hospital, Phila., and since 1905 physician to the Phila. General Hospital in the tuberculosis department.
Dr. Anders is the author of a text book on Physical Diagnosis, and of about thirty monographs and pamphlets on medical topics and matters concerning public health, individual communion cup, tuberculosis, dust-borne diseases, influenza and weather phenomena, and typhoid fever. He is a member of the American Medical Association, American Climatological Association, and American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, ex-pres., and director of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis; director of the National Association for the study and prevention of tuberculosis. [See Who’s Who in Pa.—1908.]
Dr. Anders has taken a leading part in the agitation against public health dangers of dustin connection with the inadequate cleaning and neglected sprinkling of streets inour cities. [Vide ‘ TheDust Menace and Municipal Diseases,” Journal of the American Medical Association, Nov. 4, 1911.]