Volume 6, Number 1
3 January 1961
Quonset Point,R.I. (AFPS)—A Navy doctor who was instrumental in curbing last
summer*s outbreak of polio in Rhode Island and who has helped perfect the new
jet hypodermic injector has been chosen "Man of the Year'1 by the American Fed
eration of Government Employees (AFGE).
Captain Edward A* Anderson, senior medical officer of the Naval Air Station
here, will receive the award in January in the nation*s capital. The award is
given for outstanding public service during the previous year.
A letter from the Federation cited Captain Anderson*s "outstanding progress
in the field of medicine."' The captain, while not the inventor of the hypo
spray jet injector gun, has made many modifications to increase its efficiency.
During the summer, in an effort to prevent polio in Rhode Island, Captain
Anderson administered more than half a million shots with the new injector. For
this and other work to curtail polio epidemics in the state, the captain has
received over 25 awards, plaques and letters of commendation from various comm
unities.
During the past six years'Captain Anderson has taken time off from, his Navy
medical duties to help combat epidemics for the governments International
Cooperation Angency. He has used the hypospray injector in African countries and
in Thailand, Pakistan and Brazil.
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