Background
KING, Walter Wood was born on December 18, 1875 in Galena, Indiana, United States. Son of Dr. Enoch W. and Alathair (Hooper) King.
KING, Walter Wood was born on December 18, 1875 in Galena, Indiana, United States. Son of Dr. Enoch W. and Alathair (Hooper) King.
University of Louisville, Medical Department, 1897, m. Anna Belle Wilson, June 15, 1903, Ponce, Porto Rico. Medical Director, United States Public Health Service, 1930.
Chief Quarantine Officer of Porto Rico, San Juan, 1902-1906. Chief Quarantine Officer, Porto Rico, 1913-1917, 1918-1919, Virgin Islands, of TJ.S., 1917-1918. American Consulate, Naples, Italy, 1910-1913, Le Havre, France, 1920, Naples, Italy, 1920-1921, Trieste, Italy, 1921-1922.
American Consulate General, London., Eng., 1922-1923, Paris, France, 1923-1926. TJ.S. Coast Guard, Washington, District of Columbia, since 1926. United States Representative on International Office of Public Hygiene, Paris, 1924-1926.
United States Delegate to International Conference to revise International Sanitary Convention. Co-author: Anemia in Porto Rico, 1904. Various articles in Medical Journals.
Member: (F.) American Medical Association. Association of Military Surgeons.