Funeral services were to be held today for Dr. Urban Maes, prominent New Orleans surgeon, who died yesterday at Touro Infirmary. He was 75.
Services were scheduled at 4 p. m. today at Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp, Inc., 4127 S. Claibbrne, with Canon William S. Turner of Trinity Episcopal church officiating. Interment will be in Metairie
cemetery.
In World War I Dr. Maes was credited with taking a field station and surgical team to the front battle line for the first time. He was chief of surgical services in an Army base hospital at that time.
Dr. Maes had received his medical degree from Tulane university in 1900, interned at Touro infirmary, and in 1906 was appointed a professor of surgery at the Tulane medical school. He was made assistant professor of clinical and operative surgery in 1913 and 1922 was named Tulane's professor of clinical surgery.
In 1932 Dr. Maes accepted appointment as head of the Louisiana State university surgical department and held this post until his retirement in 1947 as professor emeritus.
Dr. Maes was cited by LSU for having helped it obtain "the highest rating from standardizing authorities in the field of medical education."
