Hawaii-Statewide County HI Archives Obituaries.....Ball, Alice Augusta December 31, 19169
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Honolulu Star Bulletin, January 1, 1917, Page 1, Column 2
(Associate Press by Federal Wireless)
SEATTLE, Washington, Jan 1 - Alice Ball, instructor at the College of Hawaii,
died today at the home of her parents here. Her illness began last March when
she inhaled chlorine gas while giving a demonstration to her class.
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Miss Alice Ball became ill last spring and returned home but came back again
this fall. She broke down after a short time. At the college this afternoon it
was stated that it is doubted if inhaling the cholrine gas was the direct cause
of her death believed that there were other causes contributing to her
breakdown. She came to Hawaii from the University of Washington and had been
here about two years. On the advice of physicians the college sent her home in
the hope she would recover from an illness entirely apart from the effects of
the gas.


Additional Comments:
Alice lived in Honolulu as a child from 1902 through 1904 when her family moved
here with her grandfather, James Presley Ball, a well-known photographer.  Upon
his death in 1904, the family moved back to Seattle, Washington.  Later, Alice
graduated from college in Washington, the first women to graduate with a
bachelor's degree in pharmacological science.  She then came to Hawaii and lived
here in 1915 and 1916.  She earnead her master's degree in science at the
College of Oahu (now the University of Hawaii) and was an instructor there in
1916.  As part of her master's thesis, she isolated a chemical property that
would become an early remedy for the symptoms of leprosy.  The focus of Alice's
masters thesis was the awa root; she was trying to extract its active
ingredients. Dr. Harry H. Hollman, the U.S. public health officer in Hawaii,
asked her to try her hand at chaulmoogra oil. She did, and isolated a chemical
found to relieve leprosy symptoms when injected.

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