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IrH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. I EIroRT
'- Session. No. 1552.
GARRETT V. CHAMBERLIN.
MARCH 10, 1904.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to
be printed.
Mr. LOUDENSLAGER, from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany S. 3417.]
The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3417)
granting a pension to Garrett V. Chamberlin, have considered the
same and respectfully report as follows:
Said bill is accompanied by Senate Report No. 872, this session, and
the same., fully setting forth the facts, is adopted by your committee as
their re ort and the bill is returned with a favorable recommendation.
The Senate report is as follows:
Garrett V. Chamberlain, whose post-office address is Tacoma, Fla., served during
the war with Spain from May 18, 1898, to August 29, 1898, as a private in Company
B, First Regiment Florida Volunteer Infantry. He had an attack of pneumonia at
Tampa, Fla., in July, 1898, and later was sick with measles, and was discharged
August 29, 1898, on surgeon's certificate of disability, because of consolidation of
lower lobes of both lungs, following measles and pneumonia, contracted while in
Camp De Soto, Tampa, Fla.
Claimant is 33 years of age. He filed a claim under the general law November 8,
1898, alleging that at Tampa, Fla., July 19, 1898, he contracted pneumonia, and while
sick with pneumonia he contracted measles, which left him so debilitated that he is
unable to make a living by manual labor. In affidavit, filed March 28, 1901, he
alleged disease of lungs as result of pneumonia and measles. His claim was rejected
February 3, 1903, and rejection adhered to March 24, 1903, on the ground that disease
of lungs, result of pneumonia, originated prior to enlistment.
The evidence shows that claimant had a severe attack of pneumonia in 1893, being
sick from January to May of that year. He claims he completely recovered from
this sickness, and the evidence seems to sustain this contention.
Dr. L. Montgomery testified before a special examiner of the Bureau that he
attended soldier from January 21, 1893, to May 7, 1893, for a very long, tedious
attack of pneumonia, becoming chronic before it wound up, both lungs being affected;
that he made as complete a recovery as any man could make, being sick as he was;
that his lungs perhaps became sound, but not strong in resisting subsequent involve-
ment as they were before, and that his life as a soldier was at least competent to
produce further weakening of the lungs.
Dr. W. C. Johnson testified before the special examiner that he attended soldier
in 1894 for some kind of a fever, the nature of which he can not recall; attended
him in July and August, 1898, for measles and pneumonia, and gave him a certifi-
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